London: J. & C. Brown and Co. One volume edition. Hardcover. Wm. Harvey. 447pp. Duodecimo [17 cm] Red cloth covered boards with a gilt tooled spine, and embossed designs on the covers. Fair. The covers are rubbed, and the spine is faded. The front cover is hanging on by a thread. The rear joint has been reinforced with simple cloth. There is a 6 inch long stain on the rear cover. The underlying boards are exposed along the edges. The edges of the cloth covers are frayed. There are numerous small losses from the cloth of the spine along the edges. The front endsheet has a an abraded patch where a previous owner's name has been rubbed out, along with a couple of notations in pen. There is a 3 inch closed tear in the paper of the front pastedown. There is a tiny label on the rear pastedown. There are a couple of brief notations on the title page. The text block is cracked a couple of times. The pages are browned. There is a small loss from the bottom corner of p. 445. Twelve black and white plates. Many of Reid's novels take place primarily in untamed settings: the American West, Mexico, South Africa, the Himalayas, and Jamaica.

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Bookseller: Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 26744
Title: The Quadroon; Or, Adventures in the Far West
Author: Reid, Captain Mayne
Illustrator: Wm. Harvey
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: One volume edition
Publisher: J. & C. Brown and Co
Place of Publication: London
Keywords: Captain Mayne Reid; American West

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Ken Sanders Rare Books is a full service antiquarian bookshop in downtown Salt Lake City, Utah. We carry an ever-changing inventory of art, ephemera, maps, photography, and postcards in addition to a vast selection of used and rare books along with a few new books. We actively purchase and appraise books in all fields.

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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....
Title Page: A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
Text Block: Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
Edges: The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
Cracked: In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
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...
Fair: is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....