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The River's Children - An Idyl of the Mississippi
by Stuart, Ruth McEnery
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Dustjacket
- Seller
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Stanley, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: Century Company, 1904. Book. Illus. by Harry C. Edwards, Illustrator. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing.. First Edition decorated American trade binding. Dark geen cloth boards with gilt decoration on cover (gilt panel of river goddess with urn and water plants), gilt lettering on spine. No bumping or fraying. Binding is tight, no cracking; tiny dent at top edge of rear board. Pages and edges are clean, with no names, writing or marks. Five illustrations by Harry C. Edwards, including frontis illustration with clean tissue guard. 179 pages..
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- Bookseller
- Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 033329
- Title
- The River's Children - An Idyl of the Mississippi
- Author
- Stuart, Ruth McEnery
- Illustrator
- Harry C. Edwards, Illustrator
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Dustjacket
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing.
- Publisher
- Century Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1904
- Keywords
- FICTION, NOVEL, RUTH MCENERY STUART, FIRST EDITION, DECORATED AMERICAN TRADE BINDING, DATB, MISSISSIPPI RIVER
- Bookseller catalogs
- Decorated American Trade Binding; DATB;
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Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
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Stanley, New York
About Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
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