The Masquerader
by Thurston, Katherine Cecil
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+ with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Chilliwack, British Columbia, Canada
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Harper & Brothers. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1904. First American Edition. Hardcover. Light wear to extremities, a few small white spots on spine, previous owner's stamp on front free end paper, bottom corner creased. Small sticker damage on front pastedown. Only light foxing. ; Dark green cloth covered boards, gilt titles on spine and front, B&W frontispiece with tissue guard, 7 B&W Clarence Underwood plates through text ; The American Title of John Chilcote, M.P; Small 8vo 7½" - 8" tall; 328 pages; "Thurston's book John Chilcote, M.P. was adapted to the stage by John Hunter Booth and opened on Broadway in 1917. It was made into a motion picture four times, the first silent film by American Pathé in 1912 under the title The Compact and starring Crane Wilbur; the second was a 1920 Russian / French co-production titled Chlen parlamenta. Two more films were made using the American book title The Masquerader in 1922 and then by the Samuel Goldwyn Company in 1933 as a "talkie" starring Ronald Colman." .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Ainsworth Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 15137
- Title
- The Masquerader
- Author
- Thurston, Katherine Cecil
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+ with no dust jacket
- Edition
- First American Edition
- Publisher
- Harper & Brothers
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1904
- Keywords
- FICTION, Historical
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;
Terms of Sale
Ainsworth Books
Satisfaction guaranteed - if I have made an error in the description, I will refund book and shipping both ways. If the customer just changes his/her mind I will only refund one shipping charge. Please contact me before sending a book back. Any dust jackets on books will have a Mylar protector. Books shipped from US or Canada.
About the Seller
Ainsworth Books
Biblio member since 2003
Chilliwack, British Columbia
About Ainsworth Books
Ainsworth Books was for many years a bricks and mortar store in Vancouver, BC. When we acquired the store, we moved to a location in Delta. After three years we moved the stock home and started operation as an online, by appointment only operation. I have worked with books my whole adult life and enjoy giving recommendations.
Glossary
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- 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....
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...