Smith: A Tragedy
by Davidson, John
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fair with no dust jacket
- Seller
-
Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Glasgow: Frederick W. Wilson and Brother. Fair with no dust jacket. 1888. First Edition. Hardcover. Boards fairly clean. Some fading to inner margin of front board. No signatures. Gutters split at hinges. Some foxing.; 70 pages. Brown printed parchment wrappers. The author's fourth book. A play. Page dimensions: 159 x 95mm. Wrappers torn down entire length of spine, with 2 1/4" missing at lower end of spine and 3/8" missing at head of spine. Internally very good. Leaves unopened.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Renaissance Books
(NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 6705
- Title
- Smith: A Tragedy
- Author
- Davidson, John
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair with no dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Frederick W. Wilson and Brother
- Place of Publication
- Glasgow
- Date Published
- 1888
Terms of Sale
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Any book not as described may be returned within 14 days of receipt for a full refund.
About the Seller
Renaissance Books
Biblio member since 2005
Dunedin, New Zealand
About Renaissance Books
We are located in Dunedin, in the South Island of New Zealand. We have in stock over 8,500 books. We are a general antiquarian and out-of-print home-based bookseller, with some specialty areas in English literature, Maori, Travel, Tibet, and New Zealand history.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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...
- Wrappers
- The paper covering on the outside of a paperback. Also see the entry for pictorial wraps, color illustrated coverings for...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- Parchment
- Pages or book covering made from a prepared animal skin. Parchment describes any animal skin used for books, while vellum is a...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- 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....
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