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Vagabondia: A Love Story
by Burnett, Frances Hodgson
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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La Mesa, California, United States
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About This Item
New York, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1889. First Thus . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. As the Author states in her introductory note: "this my first novel was written several years ago & published.first in a ladies' magazine under the name of "Dorothea" & afterwards in book form as "Dolly." It then fell out of print & the author lost copyright. This is the First Edition with this new title from Scribner's (First, thus), 1889, with corrections by the author & bearing the name she originally intended for it, in382 pp. Hardcover 12mo (5" x 7") is half bound in publisher's green cloth with brown & white floral patterned cloth covering the remaining boards, bright gilt lettering & design to spine. Condition is VG: very clean, with darkening along top edge & fore edge. Some evidence of erased pencil to endpapers, old stamp from Brooklyn Book Shop in Hollywood inside rear cover. Former owner's name in script to top of title page, which is partially torn out & clumsily mended with clear tape. Exterior shows rubbing to extremities, with a bit of fraying at both ends of spine; bumped corners. A handsome copy! Our photos depict the Exact book you will receive, never "stock" images of books we don't actually have! Same Day Shipping on all orders received by 2 pm Weekdays (Pacific time); later orders, weekends & holidays ship very next business day.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Gargoyle Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 021538
- Title
- Vagabondia: A Love Story
- Author
- Burnett, Frances Hodgson
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Thus
- Publisher
- Charles Scribner's Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York
- Date Published
- 1889
- Keywords
- PRINCE ROYALTY CHILDREN KIDS LITTLE LORD FAUNTLEROY BOYS CEDRIC
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children-Young Adult (YA) / Illustrated & Picture Books; Fairy Tales-Folklore-Fables-Mythology;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Gargoyle Books
Biblio member since 2006
La Mesa, California
About Gargoyle Books
On-line booksellers since 1996
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Half Bound
- ...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- 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...
- Fore Edge
- The portion of a book that is opposite the spine. That part of a book which faces the wall when shelved in a traditional...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
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