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A Fool and His Money
by MCCUTCHEON, George Barr (novel); KELLER, A.I. (illustrations)
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- first
- Condition
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- Seller
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Winchester, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1913. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (19.5cm); red cloth titled in gilt, with decorative border embossed onto spine and front cover; dustjacket; [x],373,[1]pp, with color frontispiece and four plates of illustrations by A.I. Keller. Spine ends gently nudged, with faint foxing to text edges and endpapers, else internally clean; Near Fine. In the original dustjacket, priced $1.30 net at mid-spine; modest external wear, light dust-soil, with a few tiny nicks, tears, and attendant creases; Very Good+ or better. An American countess is locked up in a castle on the Danube by her Austrian husband. "There are dungeons, hints of buried treasure, whispers of mystery, an odd family of stout retainers..." (from front flap). Basis for a pair of silent films (1920 and 1925).
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Details
- Bookseller
- Lorne Bair Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 61465
- Title
- A Fool and His Money
- Author
- MCCUTCHEON, George Barr (novel); KELLER, A.I. (illustrations)
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Dodd, Mead and Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1913
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern Fiction;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Lorne Bair Rare Books
Biblio member since 2006
Winchester, Virginia
About Lorne Bair Rare Books
Lorne Bair Rare Books specializes in books, mansuscripts, and printed ephemera relating to American Social History, with an emphasis on radical and utopian movements of the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. We are available in our showroom by appointment, at shows, and on-line through various booksellers' sites or at our website www.lornebair.com.
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- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- 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...
- 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....
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Cloth
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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...
- First Edition
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