New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1906. Reprint of 1906. Very good in dark blue cloth covered boards with gilt text and designs on the spine and on the front boards. A small octavo of 7 1/2 by 4 7/8 inches with the top edge of the text block gilt. The cloth at the corners of the head and heel of the spine are rubbed as are the tips of the boards and the black third free end page is missing. There is a prior owner's book plate on the first free end page. The contents are clean and tight to the binding There is no dust jacket. 296 pages of text. A collection of eight short stories and illustrated with a frontispiece and 7 plates from drawings by Appleton Clark. The spine and front board show a very elaborate Art Nouveau design in gilt, and green created by Margaret Armstrong.

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Bookseller: Town's End Books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: TB32162
Title: The Ruling Passion Tales of Nature and Human Nature
Author: Van Dyke, Henry
Book Condition: Used
Edition: Reprint of 1906
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 1906

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Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
Reprint: Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
Plate: Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
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....
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...
Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
Text Block: Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
Octavo: Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
Heel: The lower most portion of the spine when the book is standing vertically.
Tight: Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.