The Story of AB. A Tale of the Time of the Cave Man.
by Waterloo, Stanley
- Used
- Very Good
- Signed
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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About This Item
Chicago: Way & Williams, 1897. Undetermined. very good. 3rd Edition. [ix], 351pp. Octavo. Black cloth covered boards with yellow and red letter and decoration on front, back and spine. Very slight bowing to boards with a small amount of professional restoration done to spine. B/W illustrated map frontis with many B/W illustrated plates through out. Clean pages. A few small spots in endpapers have been professionally repaired. Long outer and bottom edge of text block untrimmed. Top edge gilt. Inscribed by the author in black ink on the front free fly. A nice copy. very good Inscription reads "To W. B. Parker, with the warmest regards of Stanley Waterloo, Chicago, July 14th 1898". This is Waterloo's most famous work. It was followed by a story by Jack London, "Before Adam", which was so similar to Waterloo's novel that Waterloo accused London of plagiarism. London denied this, explaining that his story was in the nature of a commentary on Waterloo's work. 1897
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- Bookseller
- Aquila Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 135233
- Title
- The Story of AB. A Tale of the Time of the Cave Man.
- Author
- Waterloo, Stanley
- Format/Binding
- Undetermined
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Way & Williams
- Place of Publication
- Chicago
- Date Published
- 1897
- Keywords
- American Literature|Cave Man|Inscribed|Literature|Signed|Waterloo, Stanley
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- Octavo
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- Spine
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- Cloth
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- Inscribed
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- Top Edge Gilt
- Top edge gilt refers to the practice of applying gold or a gold-like finish to the top of the text block (the edges the pages...
- 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....