Yeast: A Problem. Reprinted, with Corrections and Additions, From Fraser's Magazine
by [Kingsley, Charles]
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good +
- Seller
-
Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
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About This Item
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1851. First American edition. Hardcover. Good +. 292pp. Octavo [20 cm] Original cloth over boards, with heavy fading to the backstrip and board edges, chipping to the edges of the backstrip, and several minor stains on the front board. There is a bookseller's discreet stamp and a contemporary owner's name in pen on the preliminary leaves, and there is occasional light foxing within. Twenty pages of publisher's advertisements at the rear. From the collection of Berkeley book collector and letter press printer, John Ruyle. Kingsley's first novel, a novel with strong social commentary, serially published in Fraser's Magazine in 1848, and in book form in 1851.
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- Bookseller
- Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 55456
- Title
- Yeast: A Problem. Reprinted, with Corrections and Additions, From Fraser's Magazine
- Author
- [Kingsley, Charles]
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good +
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First American edition
- Publisher
- Harper & Brothers
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1851
- Keywords
- John Ruyle2; lot 48; early science fiction; pbhs
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About the Seller
Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA
Biblio member since 2006
Salt Lake City, Utah
About Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA
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- 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...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...