Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran and Company, Inc., 1928.. 1928.. Good. - Small quarto [10-1/4 inches high by 7-1/2 inches wide], gray cloth with a black-and-white vignette mounted on the front cover, in a dust wrapper. The binding is lightly bumped with the edges of the covers slightly darkened. The dust jacked is chipped & soiled with small pieces out & with a tear & crease to the top edge of its rear panel. The head of the jacket spine is torn with a large piece out, affecting the titling, & there is a tear to the spine's mid-section. [ix] & 142 pages. Illustrated in black & white with 21 plates & a title vignette after charcoal drawings by the author. Good in a fair dust wrapper. <p>"New popular edition". The book was originally published in 1912.

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Bookseller: Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd. (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 26812
Title: CHARCOALS OF OLD NEW YORK
Author: Smith, F. Hopkinson
Book Condition: Used - Good
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran and Company, Inc., 1928.
Date Published: 1928.
Keywords: NEW YORK STATE; NEW YORK CITY; ILLUSTRATED; ART; GRAPHIC ART; CHARCOAL DRAWINGS; F. HOPKINSON SMITH; CHARCOALS OF OLD NEW YORK; PLATES; NEW POPULAR EDITION.
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Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd. (incorporated 1989) is a general antiquarian book store which buys and sells collections and individual items of significance. Booksellers Ric Zank and Daniel Meunier each bring to the business over 18 years of experience in seeking out and offering for sale unusual, uncommon and rare books, autographs, and ephemera in all fields. Our office is open 7 days a week from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and frequently later. An answering machine will take your message after hours and when we are out of the office.

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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...
Vignette: A decorative design or illustration placed at the beginning or end of a ...
Fair: is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
Quarto: The term quarto is used to describe a page or book size. A printed sheet is made with four pages of text on each side, and the...
Soiled: Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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...