The Quest of Happiness
by Philip Gilbert Hamerton
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Jim Thorpe , Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1897. Green cloth has blind stamp deco binding w/gilt spine & cover lettering, black endpapers, 187 pgs + Ads for other of the Author's books. Strong Binding, bump to top corner, mild overall rub, tiny chip top spine edge. Pages are Clean >no names or marks or foxing. THE ORIGINAL 1897 FIRST EDITION, the Author's last book, published 3 yrs after his death in France. Contents incude: The Author- Neither Optimist nor Pessimist, On the Dual Nature of Happiness, Congeniality of Occupation, That every Time of Life has Happiness Peculiar to Itself, Some Real Experiences, etc. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket.
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- Bookseller
- The Vintage Bookstore (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 008541
- Title
- The Quest of Happiness
- Author
- Philip Gilbert Hamerton
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Publisher
- Roberts Brothers
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1897
- Keywords
- VINTAGE, DECORATIVE BINDING, ANTIQUARIAN, RARE, PHILOSOPHY, HAPPINESS, ANTIQUARIAN
- Bookseller catalogs
- Antiquarian;
Terms of Sale
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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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- 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...