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The Pride of Palomar; by Peter B. Kyne; illustrated by H.R. Ballinger and Dean Cornwell
by Kyne, Peter B
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good +
- Seller
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Lansdowne, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
New York: Cosmopolitan Book Corporation, 1921. Hardcover. Very Good +. viii, [2], 372, [2] p.: frontispiece, 1 double-leaf plate (color), and 1 additional leaf of plates; 19 cm. Half polished calf with six spine compartments. Leather spine label is lacking from second compartment. Gilt-tooled decoration in remaining compartments with "1921" at tail. Brown cloth over boards. Top page edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Binder's stamp on front free endpaper verso: "Bayntun, Binder, Bath, Eng." A romance set in southern California in 1919. In Very Good+ Condition: lacking spine label; corners lightly rubbed; clean and tight.
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- Bookseller
- Classic Books and Ephemera
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 003291
- Title
- The Pride of Palomar; by Peter B. Kyne; illustrated by H.R. Ballinger and Dean Cornwell
- Author
- Kyne, Peter B
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good +
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Cosmopolitan Book Corporation
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1921
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction; Fine Binding & Printing;
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About the Seller
Classic Books and Ephemera
Biblio member since 2006
Lansdowne, Pennsylvania
About Classic Books and Ephemera
We have a large stock, focusing primarily, but by no means exclusively, on 16th- to mid-19th-century books in English, French, and German in the fields of history, travel, and the arts, and children's books; late 19th- and early 20th-century military prints and postcards; and manuscripts, deeds, maps, and printed ephemera of all periods and disciplines.
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- Spine
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- Spine Label
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- Calf
- Calf or calf hide is a common form of leather binding. Calf binding is naturally a light brown but there are ways to treat the...
- 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.
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Cloth
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
- Plate
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