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THE UTTERMOST FARTHING: A SAVANT'S VENDETTA
by Freeman, R. Austin (novel); Taylor, H. Weston (illustrations)
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
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- Seller
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Stephenson, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
Philadelphia: The John C. Winston Company, 1914. First Edition. An early Freeman mystery featuring Humphrey Challoner, a specialist in criminal anthropology, who after the murder of his wife dedicates his life to the apprehension and punishment of criminals (and by "apprehension and punishment" I mean he murders them, shrinks their heads, and displays them as trophies in his private museum). The American Edition precedes the UK edition, published under the title A Savant's Vendetta, by six years. Scarce in dustjacket. Hubin, p.153. First Printing. Octavo (20cm); red cloth, with titling and decorations stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; dustjacket; [4],5-296pp, with frontispiece and three inserted plates illustrated by H. Weston Taylor. Spine ends gently nudged, hint of dustiness and a few tiny foxed spots to text edges, with contemporary owners name and a tiny stain to front endpaper, and a tiny date rubber-stamped to verso of frontispiece (Feb, 1918); Near Fine, with the pictorial elements bright and entirely unrubbed. Dustjacket is gently spine-sunned, lightly edgeworn, with a few shallow losses to spine ends and two corners (none affecting lettering), a few small splash marks, and a few tears with some attendant creasing to upper front panel; Very Good+.
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- Bookseller
- Captain Ahab's Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 4294
- Title
- THE UTTERMOST FARTHING: A SAVANT'S VENDETTA
- Author
- Freeman, R. Austin (novel); Taylor, H. Weston (illustrations)
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- The John C. Winston Company
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia
- Date Published
- 1914
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Captain Ahab's Rare Books
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Stephenson, Virginia
About Captain Ahab's Rare Books
Founded in 2010, Captain Ahab's Rare Books specializes in first editions of literature, genre fiction, film-related books and ephemera, zines, manuscript and archival material.
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- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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...
- 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...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- 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....
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
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