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The Celebrated Jumping Frog and Other Stories (The World's Best Reading)
by TWAIN, MARK
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0895774151
- ISBN 13
- 9780895774156
- Seller
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Newport, Washington, United States
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About This Item
USA: Reader's Digest Association, 1992. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Joseph Ciardiello. Type: Hardback Hardcover Book in Very Good Condition. No jacket, as issued. Illustrations by Joseph Ciardiello. Afterword by Edward Wagenknecht. First published 1865. Short stories by the master storyteller, Mark Twain (1835-1910). Handsome binding of green leatherette over spine with bold, bright, gilt titles, brown leatherette boards with green decorated outline panel on front, gilt titles within, with a green and gilt frog. Clean, unmarked, tight, solid and square, sharp corners, no wear to binding. The top edge of the text block is lightly foxed, otherwise the book is as new. Internals as new - very clean, no markings, no creasing. Chapter headings with first letter enlarged and decorated. 230 pages. 9.25 x 6.25 inches. USA, Reader's Digest Assoc. 1992.
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- Bookseller
- The Parnassus BookShop
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 022262
- Title
- The Celebrated Jumping Frog and Other Stories (The World's Best Reading)
- Author
- TWAIN, MARK
- Illustrator
- Joseph Ciardiello
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0895774151
- ISBN 13
- 9780895774156
- Publisher
- Reader's Digest Association
- Place of Publication
- USA
- Date Published
- 1992
- Size
- 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" t
- Keywords
- CLASSICS LITERATURE AMERICAN ADVENTURE HUMOR
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction. Classics;
- X weight
- 0 oz
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- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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"...
- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....
- 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...
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