East of Mansion House
by Burke, Thomas
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good+/No Jacket
- Seller
-
Staten Island, New York, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Cassell & Company, Limited, 1928. Hardcover, green cloth sans dust-jacket. A sound, internally very clean copy of the first English edition, which followed the American edition by two years. A collection of 12 short stories, all of which were previously published in magazine format. Spine sunned, lightened and slightly cocked and small spot on front board. No name, no book-plate, etc. A good+ reading copy.. First Edition. Cloth. Good+/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Great Expectations Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 003387
- Title
- East of Mansion House
- Author
- Burke, Thomas
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Cassell & Company, Limited
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1928
- Keywords
- Fiction, Short Stories
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern Fiction;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Great Expectations Rare Books
Biblio member since 2005
Staten Island, New York
About Great Expectations Rare Books
We carry a general stock of antiquarian books with a focus on Charles Dickens, 19th and 20th century literature, history and biography.
Glossary
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- Reading Copy
- Indicates a book that is perfectly serviceable for reading. It may have a defect or damage. As such, reading copy is not a...
- 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....
- 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...
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
- 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...