New York: R.F. Fenno & Company, 1895. First published in England in 1888. This is a Very Good copy of a Later Printing of the First American Edition. Blue cloth binding, ruled on the cover; gilt lettering and decorations on the spine. Clean text; 250 pages, with six pages of publisher's adverts in the rear. The publication date is the correct 1895, but without the pictorial binding of the True First; publisher's adverts indicate a uniform series was issued. Very small chip affecting the rear paste-down and endpaper. Mildly bumped, with wear to the margins of the spine. Light sunning around the edges. Not beautiful, but a solid reading copy of an interesting variant. No dustjacket. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Later Printing.. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket.

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Bookseller: Quercus Rare Books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 002400
Title: The Mystery of Cloomber
Author: Doyle, A. Conan
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good
Jacket Condition: No Jacket
Edition: Later Printing.
Publisher: R.F. Fenno & Company
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 1895
Bookseller catalogs: Modern Literature (Mysteries);

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Quercus Books seeks out and provides to the discriminating Reader or Collector noteworthy books in the First Edition. Our particular focus is on Modern Literature (roughly from the Second World War to the present) and Irish Authors. We also retain a small stock of non-fiction titles, mostly in the fields of American Western History, American Indians, and the American Civil War. Member of IOBA - the Independent Online Booksellers Association.

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Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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...
Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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...
Reading Copy: Indicates a book that is perfectly serviceable for reading. It may have a defect or damage. As such, reading copy is not a...
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....
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...
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...