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Adventures and Letters of Richard Harding Davis. Illustrated
by DAVIS, Richard Harding; Charles Belmont Davis, ed
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- first
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Winchester, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1917. First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Red cloth, titled in gilt on spine and front cover; x,417pp; gravure portrait frontispiece and 27 unnumbered leaves of photographic plates (halftones). Minor rubbing to board edges; still a tight, clean copy, Very Good or better, lacking the scarce dustwrapper.
Posthumously-published selection of autobiographical sketches, travel vignettes, and news stories by the prominent American journalist, playwright and novelist, edited and introduced by his brother Charles Belmont Davis.
Posthumously-published selection of autobiographical sketches, travel vignettes, and news stories by the prominent American journalist, playwright and novelist, edited and introduced by his brother Charles Belmont Davis.
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- Bookseller
- Lorne Bair Rare Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 62792
- Title
- Adventures and Letters of Richard Harding Davis. Illustrated
- Author
- DAVIS, Richard Harding; Charles Belmont Davis, ed
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Charles Scribner's Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1917
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern Fiction; WW1; Modern Drama;
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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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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Rubbing
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- 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...
- 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....
- Gravure
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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...
- 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...
- Dustwrapper
- Also known as book jacket, dust cover, or dust wrapper, a dust jacket is a protective and decorative cover for a book that is...
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