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BRET HARTE OF THE OLD WEST
by Harlow, Alvin F
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket
- Seller
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Fairfield, New Jersey, United States
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About This Item
New York: Julian Messner, Inc.. Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket. 1943. First Edition. Hardcover. Clean red cloth has black titles on spine & front cover. Pictorial endpaper and frontispiece. B/W drawing illustrations. Text tight, clean & intact. Francis B. Harte, the story teller of the Forty-Niners. The Gold RUSH and the years that followed in California. This book is a true picture of a unique talent. Dust jacket has some small closed edge tears, chipped spine heel and is price clipped. West; Drawing Illus.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 307 pages .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Nick Bikoff, Bookseller
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 14782
- Title
- BRET HARTE OF THE OLD WEST
- Author
- Harlow, Alvin F
- Illustrator
- Hamilton Greene
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Julian Messner, Inc.
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1943
- Keywords
- West, Fiction
- Bookseller catalogs
- Western Americana;
Terms of Sale
Nick Bikoff, Bookseller
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About the Seller
Nick Bikoff, Bookseller
Biblio member since 2005
Fairfield, New Jersey
About Nick Bikoff, Bookseller
Nick Bikoff and his wife Fran have been buying and selling quality books and ephemera since 1989 when they attended the "Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar" at the University of Denver. They offer a broad based selection of used, rare, and out-of-print stock ranging from the sixteenth to the twentieth century.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Heel
- The lower most portion of the spine when the book is standing vertically.
- 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...
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
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