Romance Island
by GALE, Zona (novel); WALL, Hermann C. (illustrations)
- Used
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Winchester, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1906. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (19.25cm); sage green cloth, with titling and pictorial elements stamped in white and orange on spine and front cover; [xvi],394,[6]pp, with frontispiece and four color illustrations by Hermann C. Wall. Gently spine-sunned, lightly edgeworn, small repaired tear at crown, hinges cracked but holding, some rough erasure to front endpaper, and shallow loss to rear endpaper; Good to Very Good. Gale's first novel. "A Utopian kingdom on a mythical island serves as a backdrop for romance between an heiress and a newspaper publisher" (Hanna 1354). REGINALD 05710; LEWIS, p.68; NEGLEY 400.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Lorne Bair Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 56618
- Title
- Romance Island
- Author
- GALE, Zona (novel); WALL, Hermann C. (illustrations)
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- The Bobbs-Merrill Company
- Place of Publication
- Indianapolis
- Date Published
- 1906
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern Fiction; Utopian Literature;
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About the Seller
Lorne Bair Rare Books
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Winchester, Virginia
About Lorne Bair Rare Books
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Glossary
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- 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...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...