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The Idiot at Home
by Bangs, John Kendrick
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Seller
-
Portland, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1900. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition. Hardcover, full brown cloth with white lettering and decoration to front cover and spine, top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed, 7" tall, 314 pp. + publisher's ads, illustrated by F.T. Richards, photographic potrait frontispiece. Minor bump to top corner of front cover with some flaking to white at that point, minor rubbing and toning to spine. Humorous stories, often with a moral lesson.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Crooked House Books & Paper
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 002217
- Title
- The Idiot at Home
- Author
- Bangs, John Kendrick
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Harper & Brothers Publishers
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1900
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- publishers binding
Terms of Sale
Crooked House Books & Paper
Returns accepted if seller is contacted within 7 days of receipt. Buyer pays postage on returns unless merchandise received does not match original description. If paying with check or money order, payment must be received and verified before order can ship.
About the Seller
Crooked House Books & Paper
Biblio member since 2005
Portland, Oregon
About Crooked House Books & Paper
Welcome to the Crooked House, a one-of-a-kind bookstore in Portland, Oregon. Specializing in the beautiful and unusual: books by, for and about women, cookery, domestic science, decorative publishers bindings, weird how-to books and ephemera, 1920s-30s women's magazines, Modern Library, and more.
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- 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...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- 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....
- Top Edge Gilt
- Top edge gilt refers to the practice of applying gold or a gold-like finish to the top of the text block (the edges the pages...
- First Edition
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