Rulers of Kings
by Atherton, Gertrude
- Used
- Near Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Seller
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Hampden, Maine, United States
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About This Item
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1904. First Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine. 413 pp. California native Gertrude Atherton (1857-1948) was widowed and left with a young child. ( Her husband's body was put in a rum cask and sent home by ship.) An early feminist, she left her child with relatives, moved to New York, learned how to work the publishing industry, and wrote more than 40 books. Brown cloth, front cover has design of crown and plumes in ivory surrounding gilt titles. Edges of text block foxed.
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- Bookseller
- Lippincott Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3148B
- Title
- Rulers of Kings
- Author
- Atherton, Gertrude
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Harper and Brothers
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1904
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;
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About the Seller
Lippincott Books
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Hampden, Maine
About Lippincott Books
We invite you to browse through the approximately 1800 books we have listed online on a wide variety of subjects, including strong holdings in Maine history and literature, lumbering, the North Woods of Maine, and Eastern Woodland Indians. We've been in business since 1975, over 25 years with a general antiquarian bookshop in Bangor.We are open by appointment; most of our stock of over 20,000 old and rare books have never been listed online, including a large selection of books on Maine and the Maine Woods. We are regularly adding to our inventory with new acquisitions.
Glossary
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- 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....
- 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...
- 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...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- 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...
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