The Stolen White Elephant
by Twain, Mark
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good with no dust jacket
- Seller
-
Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Chatto & Windus. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1897. Hardcover. Minor fading to spine. Provenance: Ex libris bookplate, Paul Aubin.; "A New Edition". [8], 285, [2], [1 (blank)] pages + 32 pages advertisements dated November 1896. Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering and decoration on spine, gilt lettering on front board. Page dimensions: 189 x 124mm. No illustrations in this edition. .
Synopsis
The Stolen White Elephant by Mark Twain
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Details
- Bookseller
- Renaissance Books (NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 22565
- Title
- The Stolen White Elephant
- Author
- Twain, Mark
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good with no dust jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Chatto & Windus
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1897
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
Terms of Sale
Renaissance Books
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.
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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....
- Jacket
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- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- 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...