Perkins of Portland: Perkins the Great
by BUTLER, Ellis PArker
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Galena, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Herbert B. Turner & Co, 1906. Hardcover. 12mo. Burgundy cloth with ivory and blue lettering and pictorial stamping. 135pp. Frontispiece, 4 full-page called-for plates. Very good. Mildest of binding wear, with ivory spine lettering heavily rubbed, else tight and internally near fine. Attractive first edition. Interestingly, Butler's hometown of Muscatine, Iowa (renamed Riverbank) is where this copy has resided for the past 100+ years and was often the setting of his novels -- not this one, but pencilled 1906 ownership signature on front flyleaf of James W. Casey is likely a relative of the James W. Casey who first established a steamboat supply depot in what became Muscatine in the 1830s.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 48882
- Title
- Perkins of Portland: Perkins the Great
- Author
- BUTLER, Ellis PArker
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Herbert B. Turner & Co
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1906
- Bookseller catalogs
- Books; American Literature;
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About the Seller
Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA
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Galena, Illinois
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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...
- 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...
- 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....
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.