The Red Skull
by Hume, Fergus
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
-
Chico, California, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Dodge Publishing Company, 1908. Published in England as "The Crowned Skull;" this is a Very Good copy of the First American Edition [Hubin, 216]. Orange cloth binding with titling - and a red skull! - in red, silver, and black on the spine and front cover. Clean text; 319 pages. Frontis and three other illustrations by Louise Rogers (the plate at pages 90-91 is loose but present). Soiling to the covers and mild rub to the margins; very slighly cocked. Lacking a dustjacket; in an archival plastic protector.. First American Edition.. Decorative Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Louise Rogers. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Quercus Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 005487
- Title
- The Red Skull
- Author
- Hume, Fergus
- Illustrator
- Louise Rogers
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First American Edition.
- Publisher
- Dodge Publishing Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1908
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Bookseller catalogs
- Early Mysteries;
Terms of Sale
Quercus Rare Books
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About the Seller
Quercus Rare Books
Biblio member since 2006
Chico, California
About Quercus Rare Books
Quercus Books seeks out and provides to the discriminating Reader or Collector noteworthy books in the First Edition. Our particular focus is on Modern Literature (roughly from the Second World War to the present) and Irish Authors. We also retain a small stock of non-fiction titles, mostly in the fields of American Western History, American Indians, and the American Civil War. Member of IOBA - the Independent Online Booksellers Association.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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....