London: Henry & Co., 1891.. 8vo., 210 pp., Very Good, Burgundy Cloth, with sun-staining, rubbing, minor stains & edge wear on covers; some yellowing & staining in text block and on edges of text block; end papers stained and worn along gutter; some pencil scribbles on end papers, shelf wear. Provenance: John Ruyle; ALS inscriptions to previous owners on FFEP and half title. Photograph of Pain on tissue-covered frontispiece. From The Whitefriars Library of Wit & Humour. First Edition. Mylar Jacket.

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Bookseller: Alan Wofsy Fine Arts (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 16-1932
Title: In A Canadian Canoe, the Nine Muses Minus One, and Other Stories.
Author: Pain, Barry
Book Condition: Used
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: London: Henry & Co., 1891.
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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...
Shelf Wear: Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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...
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Text Block: Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
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Edges: The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
Half Title: The blank front page which appears just prior to the title page, and typically contains only the title of the book, although, at...