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Tales of Southern Rivers (Dust Jacket)
by Grey Zane
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good +/Very Good +
- Seller
-
Carmel Valley, California, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Harpers, 1924. First Edition. . Cloth. Very Good +/Very Good +. New York: Harpers, 1924. Hard Cover. Very Good, First Edition. Tan cloth with gilt lettering to the front board and the spine. Illustrated throughout with black and white plates from photographs and drawings. Some modest shelfwear, binding is sound and exceedingly bright internally with unopened pages and clear unfaded photos.DUST JACKET is price clipped, moderate wear to the outer extremities. A very attractive and collectible copy of Grey's fishing in Florida and the southern states. Bright, Illustrated jacket with a vignette of a jumping tarpon. Copies in a jacket are highly prized and are expensive in the marketplace. Here a copy in an original Dust Jacket. Size: Quarto
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Details
- Bookseller
- California Bookseller - J. R. Aboud
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000533
- Title
- Tales of Southern Rivers (Dust Jacket)
- Author
- Grey Zane
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good +
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good +
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition.
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Harpers
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1924
- Keywords
- CALIFORNIA AUTHOR GREY FISHING DJ JACKET
Terms of Sale
California Bookseller - J. R. Aboud
All Books are sold net and are guaranteed as described. All books are returnable within 5 days of receipt for any reason. M/C and VISA is available if desired. Shipping ( Media Mail) is $5.00 for the first book and $2.00 for each book there after. Overseas charges (and insurance if requested) are by cost. 7.25% Calif. tax is required at the time of purchase and a Dealer re-sale number on file is required for a 10% dealer discount. E-mail: CalBookSlr@aol.com. Phone 831 659 1065Address: California Bookseller Sleepy Hollow / Carmel ValleyCA 93924
About the Seller
California Bookseller - J. R. Aboud
Biblio member since 2006
Carmel Valley, California
About California Bookseller - J. R. Aboud
California Bookseller offers select books relating to California Art, History and Literature of the Golden State. Gold Rush books & Pacific Voyages to California are a specialty. California fine Press, select maps & broadsides, lithographs & lettersheets are also available.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- 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...
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Vignette
- A decorative design or illustration placed at the beginning or end of a ...
- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
- Quarto
- The term quarto is used to describe a page or book size. A printed sheet is made with four pages of text on each side, and the...
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