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BALAAM AND HIS MASTER
by Joel Chandler Harris
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good +/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
-
Chamblee, Georgia, United States
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About This Item
US: Houghton, Mifflin and company, 1891. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good +/No Dust Jacket. Signed by the author on a tipped-in leaf ("Faithfully yours: Joel Chandler Harris). Harris's sixth book, a collection of Georgia tales. Bookplate inside the front cover with penciled notation above it ("Autographed by author for"). The bookplate indicates that it belonged to Frederick W. Skiff, a noted collector and bibliophile. Interior text is clean with only faint, sporadic foxing, mostly to endpapers and flyleaf. Text block is faintly foxed. Boards are mostly clean with only a few small marks on the back cover. Binding is tight with slight lean to spine. Pictures available upon request.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Atlanta Vintage Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 37225
- Title
- BALAAM AND HIS MASTER
- Author
- Joel Chandler Harris
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good +
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Houghton, Mifflin and company
- Place of Publication
- US
- Date Published
- 1891
- Keywords
- Literature
Terms of Sale
Atlanta Vintage Books
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About the Seller
Atlanta Vintage Books
Biblio member since 2007
Chamblee, Georgia
About Atlanta Vintage Books
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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....
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....
- 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...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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