Lady Baltimore
by WISTER, Owen
- Used
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
-
Winchester, Virginia, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Macmillan: Macmillan, 1906. First Edition. Special issue, no. 30 of 200 signed copies on Japanese vellum, of which 100 were for sale. Octavo (22.5cm). Brown boards backed in cream, stamped in tan and gilt, in original tan dust jacket; plain endpapers; [xiv],406pp; frontispiece and 12 inserted place, additional in-text illustrations. Author's signature on limitation page. Lightly rubbed at edges, very minor spotting to front board, else Near Fine. In original jacket, rubed and chipped at edges with stains from tape repairs to spine ends and flap fold ends, small perforations to flap folds and lower joint: Good or better. FPAA p.392. JOHNSON, American First Editions, p.547.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Lorne Bair Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 59555
- Title
- Lady Baltimore
- Author
- WISTER, Owen
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Macmillan
- Place of Publication
- Macmillan
- Date Published
- 1906
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern Fiction;
Terms of Sale
Lorne Bair Rare Books
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About the Seller
Lorne Bair Rare Books
Biblio member since 2006
Winchester, Virginia
About Lorne Bair Rare Books
Lorne Bair Rare Books specializes in books, mansuscripts, and printed ephemera relating to American Social History, with an emphasis on radical and utopian movements of the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. We are available in our showroom by appointment, at shows, and on-line through various booksellers' sites or at our website www.lornebair.com.
Glossary
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- 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....
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- Vellum
- Vellum is a sheet of specialty prepared skin of lamb, calf, or goat kid used for binding a book or for printing and writing. ...
- 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...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...