Fresh Gleanings
by Mitchell, Donald Grant (Ik Marvel)
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- Seller
-
Ventura, California, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
NY Scribners, 1851. Very good copy with some foxing to interior. Front endpapers have some offsetting from a laid in newspaper article. This is the New York "reissued" edition with new preface (this book originally issued in wrappers in two volumes in 1847). Embossed green cloth with gilt stamping on boards and spine. This book comes supplied with a dust jacket, which gives every indication that it was supplied with the book. The jacket is plain heavy paper with some soiling and some water staining on rear flap. The spine has a "diamond" cut into it to show the title of the book. The embossment of the boards and diamond "shadowing" reflect on the jacket, as well as indications of age. If this is a jacket originally supplied with the book, it is a miracle of survival for an 1851 book. The probability of it being original is good. The author's first book. First edition, in possible original dust jacket, and rare thus. I have additional close-up images, please inquire.1st Edition.. Hardcover. Very Good/Good.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Phantom Bookshop
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 005083
- Title
- Fresh Gleanings
- Author
- Mitchell, Donald Grant (Ik Marvel)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Publisher
- NY Scribners
- Date Published
- 1851
- Keywords
- DUST JACKET
- Bookseller catalogs
- DUST JACKETS;
Terms of Sale
Phantom Bookshop
Any item is returnable within 10 days of receipt if not satisfied. Please advise us first and shipping and insurance will be the buyer's expense. Thank you.John Anthony Miller.
About the Seller
Phantom Bookshop
Biblio member since 2003
Ventura, California
About Phantom Bookshop
Phantom Bookshop was established in 1993 by bookman and artist John Anthony Miller and located there for eight years in Downtown Ventura at 451 E. Main St in Ventura, California. Many famous authors and celebrities signed there and was a top favorite bookshop of Ray Bradbury's. We specialize used and rare books, unusual material and signed books with an emphasis on the unique, sci fi and fantasy, first editions, scientific and medical. We also have a nice selection of high quality facsimile dust jackets done etching and engraving artist John Anthony Miller (all jackets are marked tastefully that they are facsimile jackets, printed on high quality non acidic paper using the finest inks that will last a lifetime with care). Phantom Bookshop relocated in 2000 as an internet business.
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- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- 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....
- Wrappers
- The paper covering on the outside of a paperback. Also see the entry for pictorial wraps, color illustrated coverings for...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- 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...
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