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Christina Alberta's Father
by Wells, H. G
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good with no dust jacket
- Seller
-
Williamsburg, Virginia, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: The Macmillan Company. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1925. First US Edition; First Printing. Very good book without dust jacket. First US edition, 1st printing. (no additional printings noted on verso of title page). Red cloth cover with gilt lettering on front and spine. Binding sound and straight. Spine is darkened. Light wear at head and tail of spine. Light bump upper right front corner. Top edge of text block darkend and foredge has tanning and a few spots of foxing. Endpapers tanned. Pages clean and unmarked. Small Brentano's bookstore sticker at bottom of rear pastedown. ; Small 8vo 7½" - 8" tall; 401 pages .
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Details
- Bookseller
- James F. Balsley, Bookseller
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 18075
- Title
- Christina Alberta's Father
- Author
- Wells, H. G
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good with no dust jacket
- Edition
- First US Edition; First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- The Macmillan Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1925
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;
Terms of Sale
James F. Balsley, Bookseller
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About the Seller
James F. Balsley, Bookseller
Biblio member since 2006
Williamsburg, Virginia
About James F. Balsley, Bookseller
My business is strictly on-line sales. I carry an inventory of about 2000 books. About half of these are modern fiction. Most of the rest are scholarly academic books concentrated in the areas of natural science, philosophy, history, and literature.
Glossary
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- Cloth
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- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- 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...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- 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....
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