GABRIEL CONROY
by Bret Harte
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very good
- Seller
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Blue Hill, Maine, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Co., 1876. first edition. Hardcover. Very good. 7 x 9 in. Brown cloth boards. First state with bear on spine. Condition is VERY GOOD ; covers clean with some faint discolorations. Spine sunned to a paler brown, cloth has a couple of wrinkles at sides of spine. Mild shelf wear. Binding tight. Endpapers and text edges foxed. Text bright and unmarked. PO's name on ffep. Fic. RGR.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Andre Strong Bookseller (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 45551
- Title
- GABRIEL CONROY
- Author
- Bret Harte
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- first edition
- Publisher
- American Publishing Co.
- Place of Publication
- Hartford, Conn.
- Date Published
- 1876
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Andre Strong Bookseller
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Blue Hill, Maine
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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....
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- 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 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...