Fantastic Fables
by Bierce, Ambrose
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
-
Salem, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
G. P. Putnam's Sons / The Knickerbocker Press, 1899. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Signed. Signed on a 'with the compliments of' bookplate by author Ambrose Bierce. First edition, first state, with four pages of adverts following the text, beginning with "By Anna Fuller." Lacking the rare dust jacket. Beige cloth with titles and decoration in red, blue, black, and gilt. Cloth age-soiled, darkened to spine, with light rubbing to edges. Spine square. Binding sound. Textblock edges browned, the top a little dusty, with one tiny spot to fore-edge. Pages else clean, interior lightly toned to margins; text bright and unmarked.
Synopsis
A Moral Principle met a Material Interest on a bridge wide enough for but one.
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Details
- Bookseller
- The Book Bin
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- BBS-2019593
- Title
- Fantastic Fables
- Author
- Bierce, Ambrose
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- G. P. Putnam's Sons / The Knickerbocker Press
- Date Published
- 1899
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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The Book Bin is a locally owned and operated business that has been in the same family since 1983. We are an ABA- and ABAA-affiliated general-interest bookstore with two stores in Salem and Corvallis, Oregon. We have over 30,000 items listed for sale online, and a dedicated rare book room in our Salem location. Books in our rare book room cover a wide range of subjects, with a focus on science fiction, fantasy and horror, literature and poetry, metaphysics, and children's books.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- First State
- used in book collecting to refer to a book from the earliest run of a first edition, generally distinguished by a change in some...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- A.N.
- The book is pristine and free of any defects, in the same condition as ...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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