Peter Simple
by Marryat, Captain (Frederick)
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fair
- Seller
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HARWICH PORT, Massachusetts, United States
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About This Item
New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1883. Book. Illus. by Buttre, J. C.. Fair. Hardcover. First American Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. New York: Appleton, 1883. Possible First American Edition. Complete in one volume. Green silk decoratively blindstamped with black in a rope pattern and with elaborate gold decoration on front board and spine. Frontispiece engraving by J. C. Buttre. Floral endpapers. 513 pp., 2 pp. advertising. Antique ex-library with hand-numbered and hand-dated (1883) bookplate purchased directly from library started by another Captain, William Sturgis. Spine cloth torn along edges, needing to be set down, front hinge cracked, book shaken, old waterstain to first signature (which is loose) and part of frontispiece, discoloration to rear board. Light foxing. Still uncommon title in earliest American edition noted. Fair..
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- Seller
- Respectful Exits
(US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 005598
- Title
- Peter Simple
- Author
- Marryat, Captain (Frederick)
- Illustrator
- Buttre, J. C.
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Edition
- First American Edition
- Publisher
- D. Appleton & Co.
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1883
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7&
- Bookseller catalogs
- Rare Literature and Fiction; Sturgis Library;
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Respectful Exits
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About the Seller
Respectful Exits
Biblio member since 2006
HARWICH PORT, Massachusetts
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- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- 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...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Shaken
- A hardcover in which the text block is loose, but still attached to the binding.
- 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....
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
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