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Lot & Company
by Comfort, Will Levington
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair/Good
- Seller
-
North Providence, Rhode Island, United States
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About This Item
New York: George H. Doran Company [c.1915]. New York: Fair in Good dust jacket. 1915. Later Printing. Presumed later printing [the publisher's monogram appears on the title page rather than on the copyright page] although possibly a first edition. Blue cloth with gold gilt lettering/decoration, 341 pages plus 8 pages of ads at the rear. The author "chooses for scene the deck of a windjammer, a small boat adrift in a welter of sun-blazing blue ocean, the thunder of the roaring forties, and the vast mysterious tropic sky. Never has Mr. Comfort written a novel in which is heard so clearly the sea, man's call to woman's love, and the song of the adventurer, going on day after day to the wonder of new horizons". Owner's inscription to the front paste-down. Fair copy with top edge dust-soiling, spot staining to the lower fore-edge, front free endpaper removed with the front hinge cracked but hold well. In a toned and lightly chipped pictorial jacket with scattered wear and a bottom edge tear to the front panel, with dust soiling as shown. This copy is priced to reflect the presence of the jacket which is very scarce in any condition. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 341 pages . LR4/1E
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Details
- Bookseller
- biblioboy
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 864268
- Title
- Lot & Company
- Author
- Comfort, Will Levington
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Later Printing
- Publisher
- George H. Doran Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1915
- Pages
- 341
- Size
- 8vo - over 7� - 9�" tall.
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- ADVENTURE, FICTION, SEA, NAUTICAL, ROMANCE
- Bookseller catalogs
- FICTION / Action & Adventure;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
biblioboy
Biblio member since 2003
North Providence, Rhode Island
About biblioboy
We are biblioboybiblioboy dealers in Books, Stamps, Ephemera, Victorian Trade cards, Magazines, Postcards, Sheet Music, Engravings, and much more. I started out as a book collector and soon progressed to owning a book store with over 80,000 books and more than 10,000 pieces of ephemera, postcards, and other items. I exhibited my stock for years at book and paper shows around the eastern United States. As the book and paper business has changed over the years, I have changed the way I do business to evolve with the times. I now offer my items for sale on the web only, through my various listing services and web sites. Being a a collector, as well as a dealer, I understand the importance of condition, as well as rarity of an item, and the desire to own scarce and one of a kind items.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
- 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...
- 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...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
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