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Emily's Quest
by Montgomery, L. M
- Used
- near fine
- Condition
- near fine
- Seller
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Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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About This Item
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1927. Undetermined. near fine. 1st American Edition. 310pp. Octavo. Illustrated dust jacket over publisher's green cloth with titles in gilt to spine; illustrated panel to front board. Unclipped jacket some small chips and closed tears to edges and folds of spine/jacket flaps. Slight fading and old dampstaining to jacket spine. Early gift inscription to ffep. Illustrated frontis with tissue guard. Textblock clean and tight; with particularly bright boards and illustrated panel. near fine The American first released simultaneously with the McClelland & Stewart edition in Canada. Printed from the same publisher's imprint, the only difference being the title page, which bears Stokes' device. Scarce in jacket. Lechowick P 90. Russell 492. 1927
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Details
- Bookseller
- Aquila Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 132635
- Title
- Emily's Quest
- Author
- Montgomery, L. M
- Format/Binding
- Undetermined
- Book Condition
- Used - near fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Frederick A. Stokes Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1927
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Canadian Fiction|Anne of Green Gables|Canadian Author|Emily of New Moon|L.M. Montgomery
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Aquila Books
Biblio member since 2010
Calgary, Alberta
About Aquila Books
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- 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...
- Flap(s)
- The portion of a book cover or cover jacket that folds into the book from front to back. The flap can contain biographical...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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....
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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...
- 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...
- Device
- Especially for older books, a printer's device refers to an identifying mark, also sometimes called a printer's mark, on the...
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