The Descendant
by Glasgow, Ellen
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Moderate sunning to spine. Very mild rubbing and fraying to head and foot of spine, outer corners of boards. Very small bump to
- Seller
-
Oakland, California, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1900. Later printing. Hardcover. Moderate sunning to spine. Very mild rubbing and fraying to head and foot of spine, outer corners of boards. Very small bump to top right corner. Bookplate to inside of front cover. 1 cm ink line to front free end paper. Moderate spotting to frontispiece and frontis-tissue. Pages clean and binding tight. Very good+. Hardcover octavo in gilt red cloth boards. 276 pages, b/w portrait frontispiece; 19 cm. Later printing of the 1897 first edition of Glasgow's first book. Bookplate: "The Attic Bindery. EX Libris Winifred Perry" with hearth image. Pulitzer Prize-winning author. Southern Women Writers.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bibliope by Calvello Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 89575
- Title
- The Descendant
- Author
- Glasgow, Ellen
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Moderate sunning to spine. Very mild rubbing and fraying to head and foot of spine, outer corners of boards. Very small bump to
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Later printing
- Publisher
- Harper & Brothers
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1900
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About the Seller
Bibliope by Calvello Books
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Oakland, California
About Bibliope by Calvello Books
Over thirty-five years experience in the used, out-of-print and rare book trades. Selling online since 1997. WWW.BIBLIOPE.COM (formerly Calvello Books)
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- 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...
- 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
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