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Mrs. Skaggs's Husbands and Other Sketches
by Harte, Bret
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Deep River, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
Boston: James R. Osgood And Company, 1873. First Edition. Very good+ in its original purple cloth covered boards with bright gilt text and decorations on the spine and with blind embossing to the boards. A 12mo of 7 by 4 1/2 inches with light wear to the cloth at the head and heel of the spine. Without a dust jacket. 352 pages of text. A collection of 27 short stories. (BAL, 7266)
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Details
- Bookseller
- Town's End Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- TB31238
- Title
- Mrs. Skaggs's Husbands and Other Sketches
- Author
- Harte, Bret
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- James R. Osgood And Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1873
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Town's End Books
Biblio member since 2009
Deep River, Connecticut
About Town's End Books
We purchase and sell only collectible first editions in a number of fields all focused on Americana. We are primarily mail order sellers; however, we are open by appointment and welcome visits from customers.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Heel
- The lower most portion of the spine when the book is standing vertically.
- 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
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