Bachelor Bluff: His Opinions, Sentiments, and Disputations
by Bunce, Oliver Bell
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
-
Milton, Vermont, United States
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About This Item
NY: D. Appleton and Company, 1882 [1881]. Early printing. Hardcover. Very Good. Brown cloth with visible light rubbing to outer hinges, o/w light edge wear; gilt illustration and lettering on cover, including a peacock, very bright; gilt lettering to spine a bit dulled; overall quite clean. Well bound, firm copy, former owner's bookplate to front paste down, penciled name on title page, soiling to margin of page 143, o/w some text age-toning, else clean and unmarked. 292 pages.
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Details
- Bookseller
- North Country Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 002804
- Title
- Bachelor Bluff: His Opinions, Sentiments, and Disputations
- Author
- Bunce, Oliver Bell
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Early printing
- Publisher
- D. Appleton and Company
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1882 [1881]
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;
Terms of Sale
North Country Books
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About the Seller
North Country Books
Biblio member since 2008
Milton, Vermont
About North Country Books
General used, collectible and antiquarian books. Also paper, ephemera and posters. I am now in my 14th year of full-time book selling.
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- Rubbing
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