New York and Cleveland: Charles Scribners Sons, 1908. 12mo. 314 pgs. Good to Very Good condition hardcover. Blue cloth, gilt lettering and top edge gilt. Rubbing to cloth at edges and corners and a pair of shallow bumps to top edge of both boards. Internally clean and unmarked. A few pages are unopened. Copyright 1896, this is a 1908 printing. The tales include 16 of which had remained unpublished in book form at the time of Mr. Field's death. An additional 8 tales were taken from "Culture's Garland". Contents: Humin Natur' on the Han'bul 'nd St. Jo., The Mother in Paradise, Mr. and Mrs. Blossom, Death and the Soldier, The 'Jinin' Farms, The Angel and the Flowers, The Child's Letter, The Single Mother, The Two Wives, The Wooing of Miss Woppit, The Talisman, George's Birthday, Sweet-One-Darling and the Dream Fairies, Sweet-One-Darling and the Moon Garden, Samuel Cowles and His Horse Royal, The Werewolf, A MArvelous Invention, The Story of Xanthippe, Baked Beans and Culture, Mlle. Prud'homme's Book, The Demand for Condensed Music, Learning and Literature, "Die Walkure" und der Boomerangellungen, The Works of Sappho. #2019.. Hard Cover. Good to Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

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Bookseller: Ravenroost Books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 2109
Title: Second Book of Tales.
Author: Field, Eugene
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Good to Very Good
Publisher: Charles Scribners Sons
Place of Publication: New York and Cleveland
Date Published: 1908
Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7&
Keywords: Eugene Field, Tales, Short Stories, Second Book of Tales, 12mo. 314 pgs. Good to Very Good condition hardcover. Blue cloth, gilt lettering and top edge gilt. Rubbing to cloth at edges and corners and a pair of shallow bumps to top edge of both boards. Int
Bookseller catalogs: COMPLETE CATALOG; SHORT STORIES, ANTHOLOGIES, TALES, MYTHS; Fiction, Literature, Mystery, Classics;

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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...
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...
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...
Rubbing: Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
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...
Bumps: Indicates that the affected part of the book has been impacted in such a way so as to cause a flattening, indention, or light...
Top Edge Gilt: Top edge gilt refers to the practice of applying gold or a gold-like finish to the top of the text block (the edges the pages...
Unopened: A state in which all or some of the pages of a book have not been separated from the adjacent pages, caused by a traditional...