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RICH AND HUMBLE, or The Mission of Bertha Grant
by Optic, Oliver (pseudonym of William T. Adams)
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/Fair
- Seller
-
Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada
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About This Item
New York: Hurst & Company Book. Good. Hardcover. Reprint.. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. No date (circa 1910). First of the author's Woodville Stories. Illustrated cloth, 256 pages, illustrated. Cover illustration still bright and attractive. Uncommon in a dust jacket, especially since the jackets were so fragile to begin with. Spine a bit cocked, dusty/moderately soiled edges, off-setting to end papers. Dust jacket missing bottom 2" of spine and triangular piece from upper portion of spine, edgewear, chipping, front panel separated from jacket at right spine edge (subsequently re-attached with non-yellowing tape), previous owner's name in pencil along right edge of front panel, smudging, general wear..
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- Bookseller
- Augustine Funnell Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 005707
- Title
- RICH AND HUMBLE, or The Mission of Bertha Grant
- Author
- Optic, Oliver (pseudonym of William T. Adams)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Edition
- Reprint.
- Publisher
- Hurst & Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾
- Keywords
- WILLIAM T. ADAMS, JUVENILE LITERATURE, VIRTUE, WOODVILLE STORIES, NOISBN
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Augustine Funnell Books
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Fredericton, New Brunswick
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- 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....
- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- 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...
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