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Frank Blake
by Dillon O'Brien
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
-
St. Paul, Minnesota, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
St. Paul: The Pioneer-Press Company, 1876. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 20 x 13 cm. Octavo. 270 pages. Brown decorative cloth with embossed gold and black lettering and design. First edition with same date on title and copyright page. Corners of the boards are bumped, some rubbing to the edges and creases of the spine. Lightly cocked. Binding is tight, gutters are sound.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Midway Used and Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 54466
- Title
- Frank Blake
- Author
- Dillon O'Brien
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- The Pioneer-Press Company
- Place of Publication
- St. Paul
- Date Published
- 1876
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature/Fiction;
Terms of Sale
Midway Used and Rare Books
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About the Seller
Midway Used and Rare Books
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St. Paul, Minnesota
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Copyright page
- The page in a book that describes the lineage of that book, typically including the book's author, publisher, date of...
- 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....
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