By Shore and Sedge
by Harte, Bret
- Used
- Near Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Seller
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New York, New York, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1885. First Edition. Blindstamped cloth. Near Fine. 12mo. 15 by 11 cm. 260 pp. Containing three stories, the longest of which, "A Ship of '49", qualifies as a novella. Condition: cloth has a small spot in which cloth is lifted on rear edge -- spot is about 1 mm each side. Leaves clean, with light age toning. Overall, an attractive, tight copy.
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Details
- Bookseller
- White Fox Rare Books and Antiques (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 007532
- Title
- By Shore and Sedge
- Author
- Harte, Bret
- Format/Binding
- Blindstamped cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Houghton, Mifflin and Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1885
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
White Fox Rare Books and Antiques
Biblio member since 2010
New York, New York
About White Fox Rare Books and Antiques
By appointment. Antiquarian and rare books with strengths in illustrated plate books, the decorative arts, costume, sporting, foreign language literature (in the original language), with growing emphasis on early printing.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- 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...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...