Old Chester Tales
by Deland, Margaret
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1904. Hardcover. Howard Pyle. 8vo. vii, 360 pp. Publisher's decorated cloth with gilt lettering to the spine. The corners and spine ends lightly bumped and the cloth lightly rubbed. Neat gift inscription dated 1904 on the front endpaper, with a small rubber ink bookseller's stamp to the lower inside edge. The binding slightly cocked, but tight throughout and the contents clean. With 16 illustrations in black and white by Howard Pyle. This being the corrected issue of the first edition.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Karol Krysik Books, ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 6655
- Title
- Old Chester Tales
- Author
- Deland, Margaret
- Illustrator
- Howard Pyle
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Harper & Brothers
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1904
Terms of Sale
Karol Krysik Books, ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Karol Krysik Books, ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA
Biblio member since 2012
Toronto, Ontario
About Karol Krysik Books, ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA
Interesting and unusual books and printed matter. Visual items, illustrated books, private press, mythology/folklore, modern first editions. Member of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of Canada (ABAC) and theIndependent Online Booksellers Association (IOBA)
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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....
- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- First Edition
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