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Black Beetles in Amber
by Bierce, Ambrose
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
-
Corvallis, Oregon, United States
Item Price
CA$215.48CA$172.39
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About This Item
San Francisco, New York: Western Authors Publishing Company, 1892. 280 pp. 20.5 x 14 cm. Grey cloth covered boards with bevelled edges, gilt titling to cover and spine; portrait frontispiece. Light toning to spine. Some rubbing and bumping to spine ends, with some bumping, rubbing, and a bit of light wear to corners of boards. Narrow strip of light staining along very bottom of boards with some dust soil to top edge of text block. Some age toning to frontispiece. Interior is clean and unmarked. Binding sound. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Munster & Company, LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 627139
- Title
- Black Beetles in Amber
- Author
- Bierce, Ambrose
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Western Authors Publishing Company
- Place of Publication
- San Francisco, New York
- Date Published
- 1892
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
Terms of Sale
Munster & Company, LLC
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Munster & Company, LLC
Biblio member since 2018
Corvallis, Oregon
About Munster & Company, LLC
Munster & Company is a family owned business with over twenty years of experience in buying and selling books. In October of 2017, we purchased Black Oak Books, originally in Berkeley, California, and moved it all to where we live in Corvallis, Oregon. Our inventory currently features a robust number of titles on mathematics, books about books, literature, poetry, and signed books. New arrivals are listed nearly every day.
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- 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....
- 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....
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
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