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Oliver Wiswell
by Kenneth Roberts
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine Condition/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
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Warwick, New York, United States
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About This Item
Doubleday, New York, 1940. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Near Fine Condition/No Dust Jacket. KENNETH ROBERTS. Oliver Wiswell in 2 volumes, New York: Doubleday Doran, 1940. Octavos, No. 817 of an edition of 1,000, pp. 411; 412-849, olive cloth boards with beveled edges, gilt lettering to spines, blind-stamped monograms on fronts, top edges gilt, some leaves unopened, lacking slipcase, signed on the limitation page by the author. Sprawling Revolutionary War novel with a Loyalist as the hero. Condition of these books: Faint wear at edges, overall near fine. Special Limited Edition, first issue in this format. Size: Octavo (standard book size). Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2-3 kilos. Category: Fiction; United States; 1940s; Military & Warfare. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 54283. .
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- Bookseller
- Rarities etc.
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 54283
- Title
- Oliver Wiswell
- Author
- Kenneth Roberts
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover (Original Cloth)
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine Condition
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Doubleday
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1940
- Keywords
- BZDB17 Fiction; United States; 1940s; Military & Warfare. Kenneth Roberts Oliver Wiswell
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
Terms of Sale
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We accept returns for any reason, with a money-back guarantee and a reasonable allowance for your return shipping costs via U.S. Postal Service.
About the Seller
Rarities etc.
Biblio member since 2007
Warwick, New York
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Glossary
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- 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"...
- 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...
- Beveled
- Beveled edges, or beveled boards, describe a technique of binding in which the edges of book boards have been cut into slanted...
- 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....
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- Unopened
- A state in which all or some of the pages of a book have not been separated from the adjacent pages, caused by a traditional...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- 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...
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