New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1922. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Signed by author to ffep with personalized inscription. Navy cloth dec in gilt and green, designed by Margaret Armstrong. Spine a bit darkened, with gilt thereon mostly rubbed away. Minor edgewear and soil, and lightly bumped spine ends. Binding shaken, text clean. Interior lightly toned, with light foxing to only a few pages. Hinges cracked with webbing exposed. No stickers or stamps. Not ex-library. 391 pp.

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Bookseller: Albion Books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 002438
Title: Companionable Books
Author: Henry van Dyke
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Good
Jacket Condition: No Jacket
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: 1st Edition 1st Printing
Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 1922
Size: 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾
Weight: 2.00 lbs

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Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
Cracked: In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
Shaken: A hardcover in which the text block is loose, but still attached to the binding.
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...
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
FFEP: A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
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....
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...