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The Lost Galleon
by Harte, Bret
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+ with no dust jacket
- Seller
-
Northridge, California, United States
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About This Item
San Francisco: Towne & Bacon. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1867. First Edition. Hardcover. Publisher's cloth with gilt sail, beveled board edges. Spine sunned, corners slightly bumped. PO gift inscription. The pages which lack page numbers have had them lightly pencilled in. Firm binding and hinges. First edition, variant binding with gilt sail on cover located near the top of the board. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall .
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Details
- Bookseller
- curtis paul books inc.
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 41377
- Title
- The Lost Galleon
- Author
- Harte, Bret
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+ with no dust jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Towne & Bacon
- Place of Publication
- San Francisco
- Date Published
- 1867
Terms of Sale
curtis paul books inc.
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
curtis paul books inc.
Biblio member since 2014
Northridge, California
About curtis paul books inc.
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Glossary
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- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Beveled
- Beveled edges, or beveled boards, describe a technique of binding in which the edges of book boards have been cut into slanted...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....
- 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...
- 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...
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