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The Mysterious Stranger: A Romance (The Mark Twain First Edition Library)
by Twain, Mark
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fine in Fine dust jacket
- Seller
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St. Paul, Minnesota, United States
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About This Item
Charles Winthrope & Sons, 2014. Facsimile Edition. Hardcover. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 24.5 x 18 cm. Octavo. 151pp. Bound in black cloth with paste-down illustration and gilt design. In illustrated slipcase. With the 7 N. C. Wyeth illustrations from the original. TEG. Letter and note laid-in. Part of Bradford's "The Mark Twain First Edition Library" which aims to create facsimiles of Mark Twain first editions. These facsimile have similar bindings and include any edition points, advertisements, and typographical errors present in the original.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Midway Used and Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 76579
- Title
- The Mysterious Stranger: A Romance (The Mark Twain First Edition Library)
- Author
- Twain, Mark
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine in Fine dust jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Facsimile Edition
- Publisher
- Charles Winthrope & Sons
- Date Published
- 2014
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature/Fiction;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Midway Used and Rare Books
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St. Paul, Minnesota
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- 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...
- Facsimile
- An exact copy of an original work. In books, it refers to a copy or reproduction, as accurate as possible, of an original...
- 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...
- Laid-in
- "Laid In" indicates that there is something which is included with, but not attached to the book, such as a sheet of paper. The...
- 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...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
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