Double Play; or, How Joe Hardy Chose His Friends
by Everett, William
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Tacoma, Washington, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Lee and Shepard, Publishers, 1872 Book. Good. Cloth. First published in 1871. A scarce 2nd printing, blue cloth boards, gilt designs on spine depicting a bat and baseball, publisher's ads on the pastedowns and flyleaves, 4 illustrations, 244 pages. Fourth published novel to include baseball content. rubbing to the board and spine edges, slight fraying at the spine ends, minor rubbing to the board surfaces as well. pen scribble over notations at the top corner of the front flyleaf. Several creased page corners, slightly starting in the rear gutter, text clean..
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Details
- Bookseller
- Else Fine Booksellers (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000888
- Title
- Double Play; or, How Joe Hardy Chose His Friends
- Author
- Everett, William
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Publisher
- Lee and Shepard, Publishers
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1872
- Keywords
- Baseball, Juvenile Fiction, Victorian Fiction
Terms of Sale
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Else Fine Booksellers
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Tacoma, Washington
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"Else Fine" is a play on words, perhaps referring to something of value yet slightly worse for wear. It perfectly describes the booksellers at Else Fine, who have been dealing in used and rare books for over 25 years. We specialize in science fiction, interesting ephemera, books on books, radical literature and history, Pacific Northwest Americana, literature, and whatever else catches our eye.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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...
- 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...
- Gutter
- The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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....