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Fire in Stubble
by Orczy, Baroness
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+ with no dust jacket
- Seller
-
Williamsburg, Virginia, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Methuen & Company. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1912. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Red cloth cover with blind impression of title on top cover, blind border on top and bottom cover, and elaborate gilt decorations and title on spine is clean and unworn. Corners sharp. No ownership or other marks other than old booksellers mark on ffep in light pencil. There is tanning on front and rear free endpapers where in contact with paste down endpapers on boards (which are not tanned). Binding sound, square and tight. Original glassine is over frontispiece and not tanned, creased, or There is 1 inch long and 1/16 inch wide slit in the rear pastedown over the inner edge of the board (not in the hinge) which appears to be due to predation or a binding tool). Advertising section bound in at end of book is dated Sept 1911. This section has unopened pages. Lacking DJ ; Color frontisiece; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 410 pages .
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Details
- Bookseller
- James F. Balsley, Bookseller
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 16797
- Title
- Fire in Stubble
- Author
- Orczy, Baroness
- Illustrator
- Arthur Buckland
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+ with no dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition; First Printing
- Publisher
- Methuen & Company
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1912
- Bookseller catalogs
- Historical Romance;
Terms of Sale
James F. Balsley, Bookseller
All books are warranted to be as described and genuine (unless stated otherwise in the description). Payment by check, US postal money order or cashier's check in USD will be accepted and should be made out to James F. Balsley. Checks may be held until cleared by the bank unless you are known to me. Checks must be drawn on a US bank. Credit cards are accepted through Biblio.com. Books may be returned for any reason within 10 days of receipt for a full refund of the purchase price provided the book is returned in the same condition in which it was shipped. If the return is because the description is inaccurate or other error on my part, I will also refund the postage both ways.
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
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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...
- 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...
- Unopened
- A state in which all or some of the pages of a book have not been separated from the adjacent pages, caused by a traditional...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- 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....
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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