Tales from McClure's : Humor: Burglars Three, The Joneses' Telephone, A Yarn without a Moral, The King of Boyville, The Merry Thanksgiving of the Burglar and Plumber, The Romance of Dulltown, Fairy Gold
by James Harvey Smith, Annie Howells Frechette, Morgan Robertson, William Allen White, Octave Thanet, James W. Temple, Mary Stewart Cutting
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good+/No Jacket
- Seller
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Prescott, Arizona, United States
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About This Item
New York: Doubleday & McClure Co., 1897. Book. Good+. Hardcover. First Edition. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Small red cloth hardcover with gilt lettering to spine and front; boards are thin--a little flexible; 186 pages; a few b&w illustrations; 1897 on both title and copyright pages. Good plus condition: spine slightly cocked and slightly faded; a few spots on front; hinges strong; ownership inscription inside; pages a little toned..
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- Bookseller
- The Old Sage Bookshop
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 113420
- Title
- Tales from McClure's : Humor: Burglars Three, The Joneses' Telephone, A Yarn without a Moral, The King of Boyville, The Merry Thanksgiving of the Burglar and Plumber, The Romance of Dulltown, Fairy Gold
- Author
- James Harvey Smith, Annie Howells Frechette, Morgan Robertson, William Allen White, Octave Thanet, James W. Temple, Mary Stewart Cutting
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Doubleday & McClure Co.
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1897
- Size
- 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾
- Bookseller catalogs
- Humor;
Terms of Sale
The Old Sage Bookshop
Books returnable within 5 days if you are not satisfied.
About the Seller
The Old Sage Bookshop
Biblio member since 2005
Prescott, Arizona
About The Old Sage Bookshop
Situated in historic downtown Prescott, Arizona, The Old Sage Bookshop offers a fine selection of new southwest books as well as quality used books for the collector, the seeker, and the avid reader. This is a small but mighty bookshop.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
- 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...
- 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....
- 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...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
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