Under The Sunset
by Stoker, Bram
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
-
Wellington, New Zealand
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Sampson, Low, Marston, Searle, And Rivington, 1882. First printing. Hardcover. Very Good. With Illustrations By W. Fitzgerald and W. V. Cockburn.,, first edition, 1882. 16 plates including frontis as required, some with original tissue guards, (one plate detached) plus other illustrations in the text, vellum on bevelled boards with red and gilt titles and red outlines, A scarce copy. Page edges gilded. Traces of paste, possibly from a removed bookplate, to FFEP
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Details
- Bookseller
- The Last Word
(NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3495
- Title
- Under The Sunset
- Author
- Stoker, Bram
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First printing
- Publisher
- Sampson, Low, Marston, Searle, And Rivington
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1882
Terms of Sale
The Last Word
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About the Seller
The Last Word
Biblio member since 2009
Wellington
About The Last Word
Dealer in good quality books. Especially Man Booker Prize winners - signed first editions, vintage childrens\\\' books and important New Zealand books such as those by Janet Frame. Prices are not set in stone - contact me if you want to haggle or submit a reasonable offer.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Vellum
- Vellum is a sheet of specialty prepared skin of lamb, calf, or goat kid used for binding a book or for printing and writing. ...
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