Letters From America
by BROOKE, Rupert
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
-
Palm Springs, California, United States
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About This Item
First edition. Octavo. Introduction by Henry James. Frontispiece portrait from a photograph by Sherril Schell. Original gilt stamped dark blue cloth (slight rubbing). Very good. 180 pages. No dust jacket. Bookplate of Irish prelate Vincent Lloyd Russell on the front pastedown. Preceded the English edition. BAL 10689 (This copy has no broken type).
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Details
- Bookseller
- Houle Rare Books & Autographs (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 302776
- Title
- Letters From America
- Author
- BROOKE, Rupert
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Charles Scribner's Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1916
- Pages
- 180
- Size
- Octavo
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- LITERATURE;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Houle Rare Books & Autographs
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Palm Springs, California
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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...
- Cloth
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- Bookplate
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- BAL
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- Jacket
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