LOOKING FURTHER FORWARD and answer to LOOKING BACKWARD by Edward Bellamy
by Michaelis, Richard C
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good+
- Seller
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Alliance, Ohio, United States
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About This Item
Chicago: Rand McNally & Company. Good+. 1890. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First edition bound in black cloth and boards. 12mo size, 123pp + ads at rear. A Good+ copy. Binding a little rubbed at the tips and corners . Owner's bookplate on the front fly. The acidic paper is quite browne d and somewhat fragile at the edges. The title page has shaken loose a nd been reattached with document repair tape. It also has some small, shallow chips to the bottom edge of the blank margins on the same page . The preface page also has some tiny chips to the blank margins of th e page and has also been reinforced with a piece of document tape. The rest of the text is undamaged and firmly attached although as mention ed, somewhat brittle at the edges. A scarce and uncommon Utopian Novel of the Victorian era. .
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- Bookseller
- Dearly Departed Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 66858
- Title
- LOOKING FURTHER FORWARD and answer to LOOKING BACKWARD by Edward Bellamy
- Author
- Michaelis, Richard C
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Rand McNally & Company
- Place of Publication
- Chicago
- Date Published
- 1890
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- Shaken
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