Cassell and Company, Ltd.. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1902. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Handsome leather binding with five raised bands on spine, lower band has small nick to leather. Top edge gilt, scant rubbing on points. Marbled endpapers with decorative bookplate of Nelson James Edwards inside front board. Tightly bound, a sound and vibrant copy of a scarce George Sims work. With sixteen illustrations by Frank Dadd, including frontis with tissue guard. 151 pp. plus 16pp. of ads. at rear. "Your father is avenged," I whispered. "Nat Harlowe the mountebank has kept his oath." ; MCF03148; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 151 pp .

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Bookseller: McCormick Books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 26770
Title: Nat Harlowe Mountebank
Author: Sims, George R
Illustrator: Frank Dadd
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good+ with no dust jacket
Edition: 1st Edition
Publisher: Cassell and Company, Ltd.
Date Published: 1902
Keywords: Fiction Literature English Plays Playwrights
Bookseller catalogs: Literature;

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Good+: A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
Raised Band(s): Raised bands refer to the ridges that protrude slightly from the spine on leather bound books. The bands are created in the...
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Top Edge Gilt: Top edge gilt refers to the practice of applying gold or a gold-like finish to the top of the text block (the edges the pages...
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