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John Gayther's Garden and The Stories Told Therein
by Stockton, Frank R
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fair/No
- Seller
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East Granby, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1902. First edition (1902). Illustrated with black and white plates. Worn but sound copy in green pictorial cloth lettered in gilt and with a delightful undersea motif on the front cover in lighter green, gilt, silver gilt and brick red, 365 pages. Covers rubbed at the edges, lettering and cover illustration bright and clear, lending library bookplate on front pastedown with evidence of pocket removal on rear pastedown with no other ex-library evidence, sound binding, some faint foxing to illustrations, first few pages have far lower corner neatly clipped off (does not interfere with text), pages generally very clean with a couple of instances of old and faint transparent staining to margins.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fair/No. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
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Details
- Seller
- Resource Books, LLC
(US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 028518
- Title
- John Gayther's Garden and The Stories Told Therein
- Author
- Stockton, Frank R
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Jacket Condition
- No
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Charles Scribner's Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1902
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7&
- Keywords
- EDWARDIAN FICTION NOVEL SCIENCE FICTION FANTASY
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction, Literature, Poetry, Literary History;
Terms of Sale
Resource Books, LLC
We pack well and ship promptly. Returns: Books may be returned for refund of purchase price within seven days provided prior notification is given and the books are returned in the same condition as when shipped.
About the Seller
Resource Books, LLC
Biblio member since 2004
East Granby, Connecticut
About Resource Books, LLC
Resource Books, LLC deals in antiquarian and out-of-print books in a wide variety of subject matter, mainly non-fiction.
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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...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
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