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The Honourable Gentleman and Others
by Abdullah, Achmed
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
-
Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
NY & London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1919. This copy also includes other stories such as The Hatchetman, A Pell Street Spring Song, A Simple act of Piety, and a few others. Cloth-taped front and rear gutters, former owner's inked name on fep, smaller round ink stain near upper corner on ffep bleeding through to copyright page. Otherwise textblock is clean and tight. All edges slightly shelf soiled. Character-aged and soiled spine and boards, light fraying to spine extremities and corners; Lacks original paper dust jacket, with binding now covered in clear, five-mil, mylar. 262p.. First Edition. Cloth. Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Hardcover.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Clausen Books, RMABA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- SB9307
- Title
- The Honourable Gentleman and Others
- Author
- Abdullah, Achmed
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- G. P. Putnam's Sons
- Place of Publication
- NY & London
- Date Published
- 1919
- Keywords
- Fiction, Short Fiction, Short Stories, Honourable Gentleman, Achmed Abdullah Collections
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Clausen Books, RMABA
Biblio member since 2006
Colorado Springs, Colorado
About Clausen Books, RMABA
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- Edges
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- G
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- 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...
- 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...
- Copyright page
- The page in a book that describes the lineage of that book, typically including the book's author, publisher, date of...
- 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...
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