Pearls of Desire
by Small, Austin
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
-
Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company. Good. 1925. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 300 pages; HC 1st edition. Soundly bound in original thatch patterned gray cloth with titles in sky blue. Cloth rubbed and worn at spine ends with a short tear at crown. Light remanants of rental library ownership: bookplate removal scars to front flyleaf and a stamp to the rear endpage. Light soiling to page block edges. Sound reading copy. Good only .
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Details
- Bookseller
- DogStar Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 42372
- Title
- Pearls of Desire
- Author
- Small, Austin
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1925
Terms of Sale
DogStar Books
15 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 15 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
DogStar Books
Biblio member since 2020
Lancaster, Pennsylvania
About DogStar Books
DogStar Books is an open-shop used and rare book store located in historic Lancaster PA. We have been buying and selling scholarly, antiquarian and better books, images, and paper since 1991. We maintain a large general collection of over 40,000 titles on premises to serve our local book loving clientele. Out of town visitors and buyers are always welcome. Our online inventory at Biblio began in 2020 and we will be increasing our inventory here on a regular basis.
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- 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
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- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Cloth
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- Reading Copy
- Indicates a book that is perfectly serviceable for reading. It may have a defect or damage. As such, reading copy is not a...
- 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...