The Fireside Sphinx
by Agnes Repplier
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- VG- (Very Good Minus)/No Jacket
- Seller
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Buffalo, New York, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Houghton Mifflin & Co. / Riverside Press, 1901. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. VG- (Very Good Minus)/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. E. Bonsall. Blue buckram with gilt lettering and black cat motif. Lightly sunned spine and edges; spine ends and corners slightly bumped. Top edge bright gilt. Binding sound, text clean. Interior lightly toned. No prev owner names, stickers or stamps. Not ex-library. 305 pp.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Albion Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 002489
- Title
- The Fireside Sphinx
- Author
- Agnes Repplier
- Illustrator
- E. Bonsall
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG- (Very Good Minus)
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition 1st Printing
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin & Co. / Riverside Press
- Date Published
- 1901
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾
- Weight
- 2.00 lbs
Terms of Sale
Albion Books
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Albion Books
Biblio member since 2021
Buffalo, New York
About Albion Books
Albion Books deals in fine used, out of print and rare books on a wide variety of topics. Specialties include Buffalo/New York history, science, religion, occult, and foreign language. The proprietor has been in the antiquarian book business since 2006.
Glossary
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- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- 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...
- Buckram
- A plain weave fabric normally made from cotton or linen which is stiffened with starch or other chemicals to cover the book...
- 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...
- 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....