Ben-Hur A Tale of Christ
by Wallace, Lew
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Stamford, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
Harpers, 1880-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good. New York: Harper & Brothers Octavo, 552 pages, 12 pages of ads; publisher's green pebbled cloth. An early printing, with the following first issue points: the six word dedication, "To the wife of my youth" and the earliest state of the ads, and with the misprint "be-became" on page 11, lines 37 & 38, but without the date, 1880 printed on the title page. One signature lightly pulled. ownership ink endpaper.A61 Please email for photos.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Griffin Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 59158
- Title
- Ben-Hur A Tale of Christ
- Author
- Wallace, Lew
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Harpers
- Date Published
- 1880-01-01
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Griffin Books
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Stamford, Connecticut
About Griffin Books
General stock of approximately 12,000 titles with a concentration in non-fiction. The more unsual the better if we can find it. We are always buying libraries and collections in the Greater NYC and CT area including Fairfield, New Haven and Westchester counties.
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- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Pebbled
- Pebbled cloth or leather describes the covering of a hardcover book with a decorative texture of repeated small raised bumps,...
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Cloth
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...