Balaam and His Master, And Other Sketches and Stories
by HARRIS, Joel Chandler
- Used
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
-
Winchester, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1891. First Edition. First printing. 12mo (18cm). Beige cloth, stamped in brown; plain endpapers; 293,[1]pp; list of titles opposite t.p. Sound and tight, lightly cocked, gently rubbed, endpapers foxed: around Very Good. Short stories. BAL 7122, printing 1. WRIGHT III, 2485.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Lorne Bair Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 58815
- Title
- Balaam and His Master, And Other Sketches and Stories
- Author
- HARRIS, Joel Chandler
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1891
- Bookseller catalogs
- The South; Literature Before 1900;
Terms of Sale
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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.
- 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...
- BAL
- Bibliography of American Literature (commonly abbreviated as BAL in descriptions) is the quintessential reference work for any...
- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...