A QUEST FOR SONG
by Bangs, John Kendrick
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No jacket
- Seller
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Yarmouthport, Massachusetts, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Boston:Little, Brown, and Company, 1915. First Edition. hard cover. Very Good/No jacket. http://www.parnassusbooks.com/image/data/books/2020/01/0_img_6485.jpg. Signed by authors. Boston:Little, Brown, and Company. 1915. 1st limited, signed edition, no. 119 of 500 copies, signed by the Author on the Limitation page. 30pp. Hardcover. Boards lightly soiled and shelfworn, with an old dampstain to lower outside edge points, extending a couple pages into book. Top edges gilt and deckled foredges lightly soiled. Internally, a previous owners bookplate attached to inside front board with a coupled penciled notes, otherwise a very good, clean copy. The binding is tight and hinges intact.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Parnassus Book Service (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 25069
- Title
- A QUEST FOR SONG
- Author
- Bangs, John Kendrick
- Illustrator
- http://www.parnassusbooks.com/image/data/books/2020/01/0_img_6485.jpg
- Format/Binding
- Hard cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Boston:Little, Brown, and Company
- Date Published
- 1915
- Keywords
- LITERATURE; POETRY; JOHN KENDRICK BANGS; SIGNED LIMITED;
Terms of Sale
Parnassus Book Service
Massachusetts residents must add 6.25% state sales tax. Methods of payment: Visa, MC, Discover, Check. Postage. USPS Media Mail is $4.00 for first book, $1.00 for each additional book. UPS and USPS Priority will be at cost. Some books, as noted in offerings, will be at cost. Overseas postage will be at cost. All items returnable with prior arrangement up to 10 days of receipt.
About the Seller
Parnassus Book Service
Biblio member since 2016
Yarmouthport, Massachusetts
About Parnassus Book Service
Ben Muse began selling books from the former Knowles General Store in 1959. Now in our third generation, we are a famiy-run, general book store selling new and old (often rare) books as well as issuing specialty catalogs on a variety of subjects: Americana, Latin America, Maritime, Art, the Orient and a variety of other subjects. If you can't find what you are looking for here on the web, please contact us directly at our Yarmouthport shop -- or better yet stop by to browse and talk. We look forward to seeing you.
Glossary
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- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- 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...
- 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...
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...