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CERES' RUNAWAY AND OTHER ESSAYS
by Meynell, Alice,
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good with no dust jacket
- Seller
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VINELAND, New Jersey, United States
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About This Item
N Y: John Lane Company,. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1910. First US Edition. Hardcover. 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 141 pages; Gilt-stamped blue cloth, spine somewhat browned with light rubbing to top and bottom, binding tight, fine overall. Approx. 7.5" x 5", 143 pp. Top edge gilt, printed slip from the John Lane Company to the Literary Editor laid in pp. 66-67, clean, bright, and unmarked. A very nice copy of this essay collection. .
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- Bookseller
- poor mans books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 34717
- Title
- CERES' RUNAWAY AND OTHER ESSAYS
- Author
- Meynell, Alice,
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good with no dust jacket
- Edition
- First US Edition
- Publisher
- John Lane Company,
- Place of Publication
- N Y
- Date Published
- 1910
- Bookseller catalogs
- Essays;
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Cloth
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- Spine
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- Jacket
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- 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...
- Top Edge Gilt
- Top edge gilt refers to the practice of applying gold or a gold-like finish to the top of the text block (the edges the pages...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
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