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The Planter A Novel.
by Whitaker, Herman
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good- with no dust jacket
- Seller
-
Chilliwack, British Columbia, Canada
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Harper & Brothers. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1909. First Edition. Hardcover. Green cloth boards show shelf wear, some soiling. Previous owner's name on FFEP, corners bumped. Back board hinge has split but is still solid. A few pages show spotting. ; Illustrated front board and spine, B&W frontispiece with tissue guard. A tight solid book. ; 7.40 X 5.10 X 1.40 inches; 536 pages .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Ainsworth Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 18238
- Title
- The Planter A Novel.
- Author
- Whitaker, Herman
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good- with no dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Harper & Brothers
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1909
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction / Historical;
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
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- 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...
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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