Boston:Little, Brown, and Company, 1898. First Edition. hard cover. Very Good/No jacket. Boston:Little, Brown, and Company. 1898. 1st American edition. viii+473pp+10pp ads. Hardcover. Decorated boards lightly soiled with light rubbing to front illustration. Top edges gilt. Internally, end-pages slighlty age-toned with a previous owners bookplate attached to the inside front board (with some off-set to 1st free endpage), otherwise a very good, clean copy. The binding is tight and hinges intact. 

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Bookseller: Parnassus Book Service (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 26175
Title: THE STORY OF GOSTA BERLING
Author: Lagerlof, Selma; Translated by Pauline Bancroft Flach
Format/Binding: Hard cover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good
Jacket Condition: No jacket
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Boston:Little, Brown, and Company
Date Published: 1898
Keywords: LITERATURE; FICTION; SWEDISH; SELMA LAGERLOF;

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Soiled: Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
Bookplate: Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
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...
Rubbing: Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
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...
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...
Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...