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The Steam-Shovel Man
by Ralph D Paine
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good-/No Jacket
- Seller
-
Waynesboro, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
Charles Scribner's Sons, 1913. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good-/No Jacket. First Edition with Scribner Colophon. Orange Cloth with blue title. Unmarked interior illustrated by BJ Rosenmeyer. Heavy spotting to text edges and toning spots to title page. Spine is faded and creased at edges. Top edge slightly soiled. Square and tight
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Details
- Bookseller
- Stone Soup Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 57320
- Title
- The Steam-Shovel Man
- Author
- Ralph D Paine
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good-
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Charles Scribner's Sons
- Date Published
- 1913
Terms of Sale
Stone Soup Books
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Stone Soup Books
Biblio member since 2015
Waynesboro, Virginia
About Stone Soup Books
Stone Soup Books, located at the foot of the Blue Ridge Mountains in downtown Waynesboro, Virginia offers brick and mortar book shopping by appointment, personalized bookselling, book scouting services, & event bookselling services. We love to connect books with people who love them.
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- 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....
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Colophon
- The colophon contains information about a book's publisher, the typesetting, printer, and possibly even includes a printer's...
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- 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...
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