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Oberammergau 1890
by Butler, William Allen
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good Plus/No Jacket
- Seller
-
Granville, New York, United States
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About This Item
NY: Harper & Brothers, 1891. First edition. Hard cover in original binding. Published NY: Harper & Brothers, 1891. Small 4to., 46pp., illustrated with plates. White cloth with gilt titles, red and gilt cover design, beveled edges, top edge gilting, attached silk marker. Printed on heavy coated paper. Some soiling to the cloth, light age spotting on edge, bookplate on front pastedown. Very good plus, crisp, bright copy. . 1st. Hard. Very Good Plus/No Jacket. 4to.
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- Bookseller
- The Wild Muse
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 009204
- Title
- Oberammergau 1890
- Author
- Butler, William Allen
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Plus
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- 1st
- Publisher
- Harper & Brothers
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1891
- Size
- 4to
- Bookseller catalogs
- Religion;
Terms of Sale
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Returnable within 10 days.
About the Seller
The Wild Muse
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Granville, New York
About The Wild Muse
Literary and modern first editions. Established 1985. Mail order only.
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- First Edition
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- Gilt
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- Cloth
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- Crisp
- A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...
- Beveled
- Beveled edges, or beveled boards, describe a technique of binding in which the edges of book boards have been cut into slanted...
- Bookplate
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- Jacket
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