Pink Marsh: A Story of the Streets and Town
by Ade, George
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
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About This Item
Chicago & New York: Herbert S. Stone & Co., 1897. Book. Illus. by McCutcheon, John T. . Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. ii + 198 pp + 18 pp, ffep with light pencilled previous owner's name & city, 4.6" x 6.9" light brown cloth boards, brown design and letters to covers and spine. Binding tight, with slight forward lean. Front hinge with slight separation pp 2-3 & fly-t.p., gilt top edge. Light cloth wear at top/bottom spine corners. Very light soil / fox to cover cloth. George Ade was an American writer, syndicated newspaper columnist, and playwright who gained national notoriety at the turn of the 20th century with his "Stories of the Streets and of the Town", a column that used street language and slang to describe daily life in Chicago, and a column of his fables in slang, which were humorous stories that featured vernacular speech and the liberal use of capitalization in his characters' dialog..
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- Bookseller
- West Side Book Shop, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 008957
- Title
- Pink Marsh: A Story of the Streets and Town
- Author
- Ade, George
- Illustrator
- McCutcheon, John T.
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Herbert S. Stone & Co.
- Place of Publication
- Chicago & New York
- Date Published
- 1897
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾
- Keywords
- George Ade - (February 9, 1866 - May 16, 1944- humorist - street dialogues - late 19th century Chicago
- Bookseller catalogs
- LITERATURE;
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About the Seller
West Side Book Shop, ABAA
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Ann Arbor, Michigan
About West Side Book Shop, ABAA
West Side Book Shop, Located in downtown Ann Arbor, was established in 1975 by Jay Platt, a member of the ABAA. West Side Book Shop offers a wide selection of used and rare books.
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- 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...
- Cloth
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- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
- 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....