'They.'
by KIPLING, Rudyard
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
-
Galena, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1906. Hardcover. Illustrations by F.H. Townsend. 8vo. Light grey cloth with gilt lettering and front board color plate. 80pp (rectos only). Tissue-guarded color frontispiece, 14 full-page tissue-guarded color plates (as called for). Very good. Faint binding wear, else internally fine; 1906 nonauthorial gift inscription on front pastedown. A superb, tight first U.S. edition of this odd tale about a home in southern England inhabited by a blind woman and numerous children who turn out to be ghosts. A lovely copy.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 41725
- Title
- 'They.'
- Author
- KIPLING, Rudyard
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Doubleday, Page & Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1906
- Bookseller catalogs
- Books; British Literature;
Terms of Sale
Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA
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About the Seller
Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA
Biblio member since 2005
Galena, Illinois
About Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA
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- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...