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Highwaymen: A Book of Gallant Rogues
by Finger, Charles J
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+/Near Fine
- Seller
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Stanley, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: Robert M. McBride, 1923. Book. Illus. by Paul Honore, Illustrator. Very Good+. Hardcover. First Edition.. Very nice first edition in unclipped original dust jacket. Clean brown buckram cloth boards with red lettering on cover and spine. No bumpng or fraying; a few tiny spots of surface wear. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound. Pages are clean, with clean wood-cut illustrated endpapers. No names, writing or marks. Eight wonderful wood-cut illustrations, including frontispiece, by Paul Honore. 258 pages. Clean jacket is not price clipped, unchipped; enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. An anthology exploring the exploits of six highwaymen from British history..
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- Bookseller
- Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 31964
- Title
- Highwaymen: A Book of Gallant Rogues
- Author
- Finger, Charles J
- Illustrator
- Paul Honore, Illustrator
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- First Edition.
- Publisher
- Robert M. McBride
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1923
- Keywords
- TRUE CRIME, HIGHWAYMAN, WOODCUT ILLUSTRATIONS, WOODBLOCK PRINTS, PAUL HONORE, FIRST EDITION, CRIMINALS, THIEVES, ANTHOLOGY
- Bookseller catalogs
- Great Britain; Short Stories/Anthologies; true crime;
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Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
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Stanley, New York
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....
- Buckram
- A plain weave fabric normally made from cotton or linen which is stiffened with starch or other chemicals to cover the book...
- 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...
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