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Myths of the Rhine: None
by X.B. Saintine
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good+
- Seller
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Honomu, Hawaii, United States
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About This Item
New York: Scribner, Armstrong, And Company, 1875. First Edition. Hardcover. Good+. Gustave Dore. Signed Lyria M Edmonds in ink. From the French, By Prof. M. Schele De Vere, LLD Decorated American binding - Clean red leather boards with gold and black lettering and grapevines and man playing a harp with a woman leaning over the harp on cover, gold lettering, grapevines and squirrel on spine. Smooth, dark blue endpapers - no bookplates. Appears to have the original spine re-bound. Some wear to corners and spine ends. Binding is tight and square, pages are mostly clean, some pages have a water drop mark/stain on the edge, with gilt page edges all around. Spine is rebound, some splitting on the front lower left of cover. Size: 9 3/4 x 7 1/4 inches The Date on the Title page is 1875; the copyright date is 1874. While the dates do not match, This Edition is accepted as the First Edition. Oversized or heavy volume, additional shipping charges will apply. Please ask for additional photos prior to purchasing. We are happy to send additional photos. 1LR
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Details
- Bookseller
- Kama’aina Collection
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- LM221001
- Title
- Myths of the Rhine
- Author
- X.B. Saintine
- Illustrator
- Gustave Dore
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Scribner, Armstrong, And Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1875
- Pages
- 423
- Keywords
- Rine, Dore
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Kama’aina Collection
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About the Seller
Kama’aina Collection
Biblio member since 2021
Honomu, Hawaii
About Kama’aina Collection
Kama'aina Collection has been helping customers clear estates for 20+ years. We are located in Hawaii on the Big Island.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- 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...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- 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....
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Rebound
- A book in which the pages have been bound into a covering replacing the original covering issued by the publisher.
- 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.
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