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Armazindy
by Riley, James Whitcomb
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine with No dust jacket as issued
- Seller
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Palatine, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
Indianapolis: The Bowen-Merrill Co.. Near Fine with No dust jacket as issued. 1894. Holiday Edition. First Printing. Hard Cover. Early edition with 27 lines on p. 110, and no ads in rear. Publisher's full red cloth with gilt lettering and decoration on cover and spine, t.e.g., fore and bottom edges deckle. Illustrated with tissue-protected photogravure frontispiece portrait of the author and five tissue-protected full-page photogravure plates. [BAL 16602; Russo pp 51ff].. Gilt on spine moderately faded, else fine; unmarked, tight, square, and clean. NEAR FINE. . Photogravures. 12mo 7" - 7½" tall. xiii, (i), 169 pp .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Round Table Books, LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 29409
- Title
- Armazindy
- Author
- Riley, James Whitcomb
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine with No dust jacket as issued
- Edition
- Holiday Edition. First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- The Bowen-Merrill Co.
- Place of Publication
- Indianapolis
- Date Published
- 1894
- Keywords
- Poetry, James Whitcomb Riley, American Poets
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Round Table Books, LLC
Biblio member since 2008
Palatine, Illinois
About Round Table Books, LLC
Round Table Books, LLC lists rare, beautiful and interesting books. All books are described accurately, packed carefully and shipped promptly. SATISFACTION GUARANTEED - Any book may be returned within 30 days of receipt for a full refund.
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- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
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