Forward House: A Romance
by Case, William Scoville
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good with no dust jacket; Spine cocked, boards dampstained.
- Seller
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Selkirk, New York, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
NY: Charles Scribner's Sons. Very Good with no dust jacket; Spine cocked, boards dampstained.. 1895. First Edition. Hardcover. vii, 149 pp + [2] pp of publisher's ads. Gray decorative cloth binding. The Connecticut lawyer and judge wrote one novel before embarking on his legal career, this novel set in a New England coastal fishing village, East Crag.; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Old Saratoga Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 38432
- Title
- Forward House: A Romance
- Author
- Case, William Scoville
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good with no dust jacket; Spine cocked, boards dampstained.
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Charles Scribner's Sons
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1895
- Keywords
- 1890s Novels
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;
Terms of Sale
Old Saratoga Books
We are happy to provide a refund within thirty days of the customer's receipt of any book(s) upon return of the book(s) to our shop.
About the Seller
Old Saratoga Books
Biblio member since 2005
Selkirk, New York
About Old Saratoga Books
Old Saratoga Books owners Dan and Rachel Jagareski have been selling books since 1996. After running an open shop for twenty years in the historic village of Schuylerville we now sell books online and at book fairs. We are members of the Independent Online Booksellers Association (IOBA). Our specialties include books about history, science, cooking, children's books, and the arts. Rachel is a graduate of the Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar and has attended Rare Book School in Charlottesville, Virginia.
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- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- New
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- Cloth
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- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
- 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...
- 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....