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Puzzles and Oddities: Found Floating on the Surface of Our Current Lliterature
by M. A. A. D
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
-
Jim Thorpe , Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
:NYC: Russell Brothers, 1876. Brown cloth on beveled boards w/blind stamped black deco and gilt title deco on cover/spine, 180 gilt pg edges. Strong Binding, Clean Pgs *NOTE*pgs 17-18 missing. Cover have heavey spine edge/corner wear, bottom edge rub, cloth split along spine. Riddles, Poetry, Quizs and more with answers on last pages.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
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- Bookseller
- The Vintage Bookstore
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 012413
- Title
- Puzzles and Oddities: Found Floating on the Surface of Our Current Lliterature
- Author
- M. A. A. D
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Russell Brothers
- Place of Publication
- :NYC
- Date Published
- 1876
- Size
- 12mo - over 6�" - 7�" tall
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- NOISBN, ANTIQUARIAN, VINTAGE, QUOTATIONS, POETRY, PARADOX, RIDDLES,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Antiquarian; Humor;
Terms of Sale
The Vintage Bookstore
We will ship anywhere via USPS - extra charges may be requested for oversized parcels.
About the Seller
The Vintage Bookstore
Biblio member since 2008
Jim Thorpe , Pennsylvania
About The Vintage Bookstore
We are an internet only seller specializing in used, rare and out of print items. Lots of Children's books, Poetry, Literature and Antiquarian titles in Decorative Bindings.All books are on premises and usually ship, carefully wrapped, within 24 hours.
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- 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...
- Cloth
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- 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...
- 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....
- 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...
- 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...
- Beveled
- Beveled edges, or beveled boards, describe a technique of binding in which the edges of book boards have been cut into slanted...
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