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The August Stories / Volume Second: Hunter & Tom
by Abbott, Jacob
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- About Very Good
- Seller
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Baldwinsville, New York, United States
Item Price
A$283.33A$254.99
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About This Item
New York: Dodd & Mead, 1871. First Edition . Decorated Cloth. About Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Frontis. New York: Dodd & Mead, 1871. First Edition. Frontispiece illustration. 12mo, 383 pp. Russet pebble cloth ornately decorated in gilt and black, as is the spine; light blue endpaper. Front hinge cracking at flyleaf, some spine lean (perhaps 10%), general mild to moderate wear at extremities, early owner's inscription dated Nov.4th, 1873 on ffep, else a very bright and handsome Very Good, with very strong gilt and black designs. See scans. An uncommon true first edition, with eye appeal on the shelf, of the second installment - "Hunter and Tom" - in Abbott's juvenile adventure series, "The August Stories", the others being "August and Elvie" (first volume); "The Schooner Mary Ann" (third volume); and "In Preparation" (fourth volume). Genuinely scarce as the 1871 first edition, and a truly pretty decorative binding - or, as bibliographers tend to say, "lovely binding". See scans.l50n
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Details
- Bookseller
- Singularity Rare & Fine
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000673
- Title
- The August Stories / Volume Second: Hunter & Tom
- Author
- Abbott, Jacob
- Illustrator
- Frontis
- Format/Binding
- Decorated Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - About Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Dodd & Mead
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1871
- Pages
- 383
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7&
- Keywords
- first edition, Decorative Binding, juvenile, Children's, Adventure General, Action & Adventure, General
- Bookseller catalogs
- Antiquarian;
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About the Seller
Singularity Rare & Fine
Biblio member since 2005
Baldwinsville, New York
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- 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...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- 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...
- 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...
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