Beverly of Graustark (First Edition)
by McCutcheon, George Barr, and Harrison Fisher (illus)
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fair
- Seller
-
Saint Louis, Missouri, United States
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About This Item
New York: Dodd, Mead, and Company, 1904. FIRST EDITION, first printing. Full blue cloth with with lettering on the spine and front cover, front right of cover is a paste down plate of a woman, moderate shelf wear, slightly soiled plate, previous owner's name in pencil on the front free endpaper. Book is cocked. Penciled marginalia at the top of a few pages. Color frontispiece plate and several other plates by Fisher. Overall in FAIR PLUS condition. . First Edition. Full Cloth. Fair. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Hardcover.
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- Bookseller
- Ziern-Hanon Galleries
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 016102
- Title
- Beverly of Graustark (First Edition)
- Author
- McCutcheon, George Barr, and Harrison Fisher (illus)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Dodd, Mead, and Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1904
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7&
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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.,...
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
- Marginalia
- Marginalia, in brief, are notes written in the margins, or beside the text of a book by a previous owner. This is very...
- 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....
- 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...
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- 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...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
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