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Home-Folks ( In dust jacket )
by Riley, James Whitcomb
- Used
- near fine
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good-
- Seller
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Rougemont, North Carolina, United States
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About This Item
Indianapolis: The Bowen-Merrill Company Pubishers, 1900. 1st Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good-. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 1st edition, 1st state with repeated subtitle on page 59. A Near Fine copy in Very Good dust jacket. Small octavo. Green cloth with gilt titles and elaborate gilt spine decoration, top edge gilt. Leaves slightly tanned, jacket spine darkened. The printing on the jacket, front cover and spine, mirrors the gilt on the cloth. Needless to say the jacket is rare. The dj is now protected in a mylar sleeve. Near Fine in a Very Good dust jacket.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Frey Fine Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 11092
- Title
- Home-Folks ( In dust jacket )
- Author
- Riley, James Whitcomb
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good-
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- The Bowen-Merrill Company Pubishers
- Place of Publication
- Indianapolis
- Date Published
- 1900
- Keywords
- novel, fiction
Terms of Sale
Frey Fine Books
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Frey Fine Books
Biblio member since 2019
Rougemont, North Carolina
About Frey Fine Books
Antiquarian bookseller, with over 15 years experience.
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- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....
- 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...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Top Edge Gilt
- Top edge gilt refers to the practice of applying gold or a gold-like finish to the top of the text block (the edges the pages...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
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