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The Fruitful Vine
by Hichens, Robert
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/No jacket
- Seller
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Meadows of Dan, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1911. First edition. Hardcover. Good/No jacket. Guerin, Jules. 524 pages with glossary of foreign words and phrases, tissue protected color frontispiece. Novel set in Rome by an often controversial and satirical British author and journalist who traveled widely. Green cloth binding with gilt titles and blindstamped decorations on front cover and spine. Some staining of cover, titles faded on spine, edge wear, especially at spine edges, corners and spine ends bumped, former owner's name on front free end paper, (Etta Kerr Hicks, granddaughter of Reverdy Johnson of Maryland, Attorney General under President Zachary Taylor, 1849 -1850) end papers tanning along with half title, interior pages mostly bright with a little edge tanning and small stains on some page edges, binding tight.
Measures 5 1/4 x 7 3/4 inches.
Measures 5 1/4 x 7 3/4 inches.
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- Bookseller
- Scraps of American History
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 00872
- Title
- The Fruitful Vine
- Author
- Hichens, Robert
- Illustrator
- Guerin, Jules
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Frederick A. Stokes Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1911
- Keywords
- fiction, Europe,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;
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About the Seller
Scraps of American History
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Meadows of Dan, Virginia
About Scraps of American History
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- Half Title
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- Cloth
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- Gilt
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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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- First Edition
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- Edges
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