A HOUSE-BOAT ON THE STYX : BEING SOME ACCOUNT OF THE DIVERS DOINGS OF THE ASSOCIATED SHADES
by Bangs, John Kendrick [illustrated, mostly by Peter Newell]
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good with no dust jacket
- Seller
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North Providence, Rhode Island, United States
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About This Item
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers. Good with no dust jacket. 1896. Reprint. Hardcover. Reprint. Assorted historical personages [including Sherlock Holmes] in the after-life. Bleiler [1978 Checklist, page 14]. Reginald 00829. June 1896 gift inscription to the front free endpaper. Green pictorial cloth with gold gilt lettering, 171 pages plus 4 pages of ads, illustrated. Good to Very Good copy [spine cocked and lightly toned, top edge foxing/soiling, some foxing to the rear paste-down else the contents are tight and clean with the hinges not cracked]. .
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- Bookseller
- biblioboy (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 74747
- Title
- A HOUSE-BOAT ON THE STYX : BEING SOME ACCOUNT OF THE DIVERS DOINGS OF THE ASSOCIATED SHADES
- Author
- Bangs, John Kendrick [illustrated, mostly by Peter Newell]
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good with no dust jacket
- Edition
- Reprint
- Publisher
- Harper & Brothers Publishers
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1896
- Keywords
- SHERLOCK, HOLMES, AFTER-LIFE, FICTION
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About the Seller
biblioboy
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North Providence, Rhode Island
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We are biblioboybiblioboy dealers in Books, Stamps, Ephemera, Victorian Trade cards, Magazines, Postcards, Sheet Music, Engravings, and much more. I started out as a book collector and soon progressed to owning a book store with over 80,000 books and more than 10,000 pieces of ephemera, postcards, and other items. I exhibited my stock for years at book and paper shows around the eastern United States. As the book and paper business has changed over the years, I have changed the way I do business to evolve with the times. I now offer my items for sale on the web only, through my various listing services and web sites. Being a a collector, as well as a dealer, I understand the importance of condition, as well as rarity of an item, and the desire to own scarce and one of a kind items.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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...
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...