KING MIDAS
by Sinclair, Upton
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- near fine
- Seller
-
Deerfield, Illinois, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Funk & Wagnalls Co., 1903. first edition. hardcover. near fine. Relyea, Charles M.. Illustrations bby Charles M Relyea. Octavo, orange cloth covers, decorated in gilt and black, 388 pages. Bookplate on front paste-down, and former owner name and date in pencil on front free endpaper, near fine. No dust jacket. 092715C
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Details
- Bookseller
- Alkahest Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000020528
- Title
- KING MIDAS
- Author
- Sinclair, Upton
- Illustrator
- Relyea, Charles M.
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - near fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- first edition
- Publisher
- Funk & Wagnalls Co.
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1903
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Alkahest Books
Biblio member since 2012
Deerfield, Illinois
About Alkahest Books
Alkahest Books was established in1984. We started as an open shop on Central St. in Evanston, IL, and sold books there until 2002 and later were part of Chicago Rare Book Center which closed in 2017. We are members of the Midwest Antiquarian Booksellers Association, and IOBA and sell both online and at book fairs. International customers should ask for a shipping quote before ordering as the rates given are only for smaller books.
Glossary
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- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- 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...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- Paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
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