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Silas Strong, Emperor Of The Woods
by Bacheller, Irving
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket
- Seller
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Summerville, South Carolina, United States
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About This Item
New York and London: Harper & Brothers. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1906. First Edition; First Printing. Original Cloth. An attractive, about Fine first edition in gilt stamped red cloth with a trace of sunning to spine ends, frontispiece with tissue gard present. In the scarce, only lightly chipped and rubbed dust-jacket; "And a little child shall lead them". Bacheller's story is laid in the forests of the Adirondacks. "Uncle Sile" is a philosopher or the wooks who thinks much and says little - a "one-word man," but a genuine humorist, with fountains of sly laughter in him. The heroine is a delightful daughter of the woodlands, and her romance breathes of the mountain air...; 8vo; viii, 339, [1] pages .
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- Bookseller
- Books Tell You Why, Inc.
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 29150
- Title
- Silas Strong, Emperor Of The Woods
- Author
- Bacheller, Irving
- Format/Binding
- Original Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition; First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Harper & Brothers
- Place of Publication
- New York and London
- Date Published
- 1906
- Keywords
- Collectible Rare Out-Of-Print, Early Dust-jackets
- Bookseller catalogs
- By Year Of Issue / 1900s;
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- Jacket
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- Gilt
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- First Edition
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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...
- SL.
- slight
- 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....
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
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