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Condensed Novels
by Harte, Bret
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Good with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Northridge, California, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Osgood and Co. Good with no dust jacket. 1871. Second Edition. Hardcover. Green cloth stamped in gilt, beveled edges. Inscribed to the ffep by Harte in 1871; recipient further inscribed book in 1908. Slight cant; frayed spine ends/points, rubbed edges. Second edition, with two stories appearing in book form for the first time. Frontis and illus. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 212 pages; Signed by Author .
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- Bookseller
- curtis paul books inc.
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 40023
- Title
- Condensed Novels
- Author
- Harte, Bret
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good with no dust jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Second Edition
- Publisher
- Osgood and Co
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1871
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Glossary
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- Inscribed
- When a book is described as being inscribed, it indicates that a short note written by the author or a previous owner has been...
- Beveled
- Beveled edges, or beveled boards, describe a technique of binding in which the edges of book boards have been cut into slanted...
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
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