Greyfriar's Bobby
by Atkinson, Eleanor
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair
- Seller
-
Greensboro, North Carolina, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York and London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1912. Hardcover. Fair. 12mo. 291 pages. Hardcover in blue cloth with illustration outlined in gilt on front cover. Binding is quite rubbed, has slight wrinkling of cloth on front board. Spine is toned, has white dampmark near foot. Gutter is broken where frontispiece meets title page. Cords show. Tissue paper is still present and attached. Text has occasional foxing.
Synopsis
When the time-gun boomed from Edinburgh Castle, Bobby gave a startled yelp. He was only a little country dog - the very youngest and smallest and shaggiest of Skye terriers-bred on a heathery slope of the Pentland hills, where the loudest sound was the bark of a collie or the tinkle of a sheep-bell. That morning he had come to the weekly market with Auld Jock, a farm laborer, and the Grassmarket of the Scottish capital lay in the narrow valley at the southern base of Castle Crag.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Pages Past Used and Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 040687
- Title
- Greyfriar's Bobby
- Author
- Atkinson, Eleanor
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Harper & Brothers Publishers
- Place of Publication
- New York and London
- Date Published
- 1912
- Keywords
- 1912; Eleanor Atkinson; Dogs; Animals; Literature
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature & Fiction; Animals;
Terms of Sale
Pages Past Used and Rare Books
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About the Seller
Pages Past Used and Rare Books
Biblio member since 2017
Greensboro, North Carolina
About Pages Past Used and Rare Books
Pages Past is a small used & rare bookshop located a few blocks from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Since 1996 we have been serving the Triad community as well as customers from around the world. We have around 15-20,000 volumes in our shop. We specialize in North Carolina, Virginia, Civil War, Old Leather, Christianity, Eastern and Western Philosophies, and the simply unusual. We very likely have the oldest books in Greensboro; we keep a nice selection of antiquarian volumes and scholarly books.
Glossary
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- 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....
- Gutter
- The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
- 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...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- 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...
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