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The Story of a Bad Boy
by Thomas Bailey Aldrich
- Used
- very good
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
-
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Fields, Osgood, & Co, 1870. Very Good. Boston: Fields, Osgood, & Co., 1870. First Edition, First State with "scattered" on page 14 and "abroad" on page 197. Octavo. 261 p. + 23 p. publisher's advertisements with "The Uncle Sam Series" to first page. Frontispiece with tissue guard + additional black and white illustrations including one additional black and white plate. Rebound in modern cloth with original blue cloth boards pasted over, original gilt decoration to spine, new endpapers with original front brown endpaper present but lacking at rear.
Boards lightly worn along edges with chipping to edges of original spine. Binding is sound. Newspaper clippings rather shoddily mounted to front preliminaries with some associated staining. Toning and spotting to pages but otherwise legible and unmarked.
Boards lightly worn along edges with chipping to edges of original spine. Binding is sound. Newspaper clippings rather shoddily mounted to front preliminaries with some associated staining. Toning and spotting to pages but otherwise legible and unmarked.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Capitol Hill Books, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 8992
- Title
- The Story of a Bad Boy
- Author
- Thomas Bailey Aldrich
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Fields, Osgood, & Co
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1870
Terms of Sale
Capitol Hill Books, ABAA
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Capitol Hill Books, ABAA
Biblio member since 2019
Washington, District of Columbia
About Capitol Hill Books, ABAA
Capitol Hill Books is a used bookstore in the Eastern Market neighborhood of Washington, DC. We have three floors of quality used books, first editions, and rare books.
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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....
- 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...
- 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"...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- 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...
- 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 State
- used in book collecting to refer to a book from the earliest run of a first edition, generally distinguished by a change in some...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Rebound
- A book in which the pages have been bound into a covering replacing the original covering issued by the publisher.
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
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