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FROM THE CLOUDS TO THE MOUNTAINS, COMPRISING NARRATIVES OF STRANGE ADVENTURES BY AIR, LAND AND WATER A Chapter by Paul Verne, Brother of Jules Verne
by Verne, Jules
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Fairfield, New Jersey, United States
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About This Item
Boston: William F. Gill & Co.. Very Good. 1874. First Edition. Hardcover. Clean green original cloth that has the gilt title on the spine. Pictorial frontispiece. Drawing illustrations. An anthology of five short stories first published together in 1874. Prior owners book-plate. Spine heel lightly rubbed. A few pages slightly out of alignment. Lightly age toned page edges. Literature; Drawing illustrations; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 285 pages .
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- Bookseller
- Nick Bikoff, Bookseller
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 15374
- Title
- FROM THE CLOUDS TO THE MOUNTAINS, COMPRISING NARRATIVES OF STRANGE ADVENTURES BY AIR, LAND AND WATER A Chapter by Paul Verne, Brother of Jules Verne
- Author
- Verne, Jules
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- William F. Gill & Co.
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1874
- Keywords
- Fiction
Terms of Sale
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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.
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- 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....
- 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...
- Heel
- The lower most portion of the spine when the book is standing vertically.
- 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...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
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