Friends on the Shelf
by Bradford Torrey
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
-
Catawissa, Pennsylvania, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1906. FIrst Edition. First publsihed October, 1906. In red cloth covers with bright gilt lettering on front cover and spine. Square and intact binding. Clean and unmarked endpapers and text pages. Bumping of ends of spine and corners. Light to moderate shelf wear. Biographical sketches of author's favorite writers. Photos upon request. . Hardcover. Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Quaker House Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 003788
- Title
- Friends on the Shelf
- Author
- Bradford Torrey
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1906
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7&
- Keywords
- Biography, Sketches
- Bookseller catalogs
- Biography;
Terms of Sale
Quaker House Books
Items must be returned within ten days of sale for a full refund if not satisfied.
About the Seller
Quaker House Books
Biblio member since 2006
Catawissa, Pennsylvania
About Quaker House Books
My book holdings are eclectic in nature.
Glossary
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- 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...
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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....