The Flight of Pony Baker: A Boy's Town Story
by HOWELLS, William Dean
- Used
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Winchester, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1902. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (19cm); maroon cloth, with titling and decorations stamped in black and silver on spine and front cover; vi,223,[1]pp, with frontispiece and seven illustrations by Florence Scovel Shinn. Hint of sunning to spine, light wear to extremities, with a touch of biopredation to text edges; contemporary gift inscription to front endpaper; Very Good+. Juvenile novel set in Ohio, centered around a little boy who attempts to run away from home, and his adventures in the process. Characters bear striking similarities to Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn. BAL 9748.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Lorne Bair Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 45323
- Title
- The Flight of Pony Baker: A Boy's Town Story
- Author
- HOWELLS, William Dean
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Harper & Brothers Publishers
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1902
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About the Seller
Lorne Bair Rare Books
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Winchester, Virginia
About Lorne Bair Rare Books
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- BAL
- Bibliography of American Literature (commonly abbreviated as BAL in descriptions) is the quintessential reference work for any...
- 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
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- Octavo
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- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- 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....