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The Lady, or the Tiger? and Other Stories
by Stockton, Frank R
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fair
- Seller
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1887. First printing. Hardcover. Fair. First edition, 1864. Cloth hardcover with gilt title on the spine, 324 pp. + ads., clean unmarked text, Fair copy, lacking the front flyleaf, small bookplate on the front pastedown, a bit of a musty aroma to the book, minor soiling or discoloration to some pages and to the page-edges, some wear to the book's covers including a bit of fraying or loss at the tips, no dust jacket.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Common Crow Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 0087691
- Title
- The Lady, or the Tiger? and Other Stories
- Author
- Stockton, Frank R
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First printing
- Publisher
- Charles Scribner's Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1887
- Keywords
- Literature
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About the Seller
Common Crow Books
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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- Spine
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- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
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