Tales Of the Argonauts, and Other Sketches.
by Harte, Bret
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- Hardcover
- first
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- Seller
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San Francisco, California, United States
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About This Item
Boston: James R. Osgood, 1875.. 12mo. 283 pp. Very Good, Brown Cloth, some wear on head and tail of spine; some staining, rubbing, & edge wear on covers; slight yellowing & foxing of some pages, some staining & rubbing of end papers, minor tears along spine gutter of end papers, shelf wear. Pencil scribbles on FFEP. Provenance: John Ruyle. Mylar Jacket. First Edition.
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- Bookseller
- Alan Wofsy Fine Arts (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 19-0099
- Title
- Tales Of the Argonauts, and Other Sketches.
- Author
- Harte, Bret
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Boston: James R. Osgood, 1875.
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- Literature & Linguistics;
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Alan Wofsy Fine Arts
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San Francisco, California
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- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Gutter
- The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Cloth
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- Jacket
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- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- 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....
- 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...
- 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...
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...