Further Foolishness: Sketches and Satires on the Follies of the Day
by Stephen Leacock
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Collectible; Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
-
Waccabuc, New York, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: John Lane Co, 1917. 1st. Cloth. Collectible; Very Good/Very Good. The 1917 1st edition, IN THE UNCOMMON PICTORIAL DUSTJACKET. Solid and VG (with light foxing at the endsheets) in a bright, VG- jacket, with moderate chipping at the spine ends (affecting the lettering) and light chipping along the panel edges. Still though, a perfectly presentable copy. 12mo, 312 pgs.
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- Bookseller
- Appledore Books, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 8574
- Title
- Further Foolishness: Sketches and Satires on the Follies of the Day
- Author
- Stephen Leacock
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Collectible; Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- John Lane Co
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1917
- Keywords
- Rare Modern firsts, rare Stephen Leacock
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature; Humor;
Terms of Sale
Appledore Books, ABAA
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About the Seller
Appledore Books, ABAA
Biblio member since 2005
Waccabuc, New York
About Appledore Books, ABAA
Buy and sell - rare, unusual and antiquarian - art, photography, literature, scholarly, sports, childrens, bindings.
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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...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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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