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VAN-TI, THE CHINESE MAGISTRATE, AND OTHER TALES OF OTHER COUNTRIES
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- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good with no dust jacket
- Seller
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VINELAND, New Jersey, United States
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About This Item
London: John W. Parker,. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1844. First Edition. Hardcover. South America; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; ix, [10]-138, ads [6] pages; Orig publisher's blue-green cloth; spine ends chipped, corners thumbed, front hinge cracked. Pages very good. Includes 'Lady of Potosi' Peru and 'The Leicesters or English in HIndostan' first edition. None found in records, WorldCat locates but 4 copies. Quite scarce. .
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- Bookseller
- poor mans books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 32479
- Title
- VAN-TI, THE CHINESE MAGISTRATE, AND OTHER TALES OF OTHER COUNTRIES
- Author
- Unknown
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good with no dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- John W. Parker,
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1844
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- 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...
- Spine
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- Hinge
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- Worldcat
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- 12mo
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- Cracked
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- Jacket
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