The Summerville Prize : a Story for Girls
by Archibald, Mrs. George
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
-
Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Hunt & Eaton. Very Good. 1890. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 206 pages; 1890 Hunt & Eaton. HC 1st edition. Soundly bound in original burgundy cloth lettered in gilt to cover and spine. Light crimping and trace fray to cloth at spine ends; corners lightly shelf bumped. Light offset toning to the free endpages facing the coated lining sheets. Expected mild toning to page stock. Scarce later 19th cnetury novel for girls. VG .
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Details
- Bookseller
- DogStar Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 52700
- Title
- The Summerville Prize : a Story for Girls
- Author
- Archibald, Mrs. George
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Hunt & Eaton
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1890
- Bookseller catalogs
- 19th Century Subjects and Studies;
Terms of Sale
DogStar Books
15 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 15 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
DogStar Books
Biblio member since 2020
Lancaster, Pennsylvania
About DogStar Books
DogStar Books is an open-shop used and rare book store located in historic Lancaster PA. We have been buying and selling scholarly, antiquarian and better books, images, and paper since 1991. We maintain a large general collection of over 40,000 titles on premises to serve our local book loving clientele. Out of town visitors and buyers are always welcome. Our online inventory at Biblio began in 2020 and we will be increasing our inventory here on a regular basis.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
- Offset
- A technique of printing where the inked image or text is ...