The Gentleman from Indiana
by TARKINGTON Booth
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
-
Charlottesville , Virginia, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Doubleday & McClure Co., 1899. . 8vo, green cloth, stamped in yellow and red, corners a trifle bumped, t.e.black. Bookplate of the Carlisle House Library (private collection) FIRST EDITION of the author's first book; first state of the text in the second state of the binding with the ear of corn pointing down.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Franklin Gilliam :: Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 86
- Title
- The Gentleman from Indiana
- Author
- TARKINGTON Booth
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- New York: Doubleday & McClure Co., 1899.
- Bookseller catalogs
- AMERICAN LITERATURE;
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About the Seller
Franklin Gilliam :: Rare Books
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Charlottesville , Virginia
About Franklin Gilliam :: Rare Books
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New customers unknown to us, please send check with order. Libraries will be billed in any manner suited to their budgetary requirements.
Shipping, handling and insurance are charged at $7.50 for the first volume; $2.00 for each additional volume.
Mastercard or Visa, or by check in U.S. funds. Virginia residents please
add 5.3% sales tax.
New customers unknown to us, please send check with order. Libraries will be billed in any manner suited to their budgetary requirements.
Shipping, handling and insurance are charged at $7.50 for the first volume; $2.00 for each additional volume.
Glossary
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- 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...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Second State
- used in book collecting to refer to a first edition, but after some change has been made in the printing, such as a correction,...
- 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...