Tom Grogan
by Smith, F. Hopkinson
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
-
Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
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About This Item
New York: Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1897. Book. Illus. by Charles S. Reinhart. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Octavo. 8vo. (10) 246 (6) pp, Inked pad-stamp name front paste down. list of 19 b&w illustrations - plate, Light external wear, else, Pristine Interior. No markings, binding tight, clean, white and bright. 5.25" x 7.5". Illustrated blue cloth with gilt borders, title plate and lettering to front board and spine, and gilt top text block. "Francis Hopkinson Smith (October 23, 1838 - April 7, 1915) was an American author, artist and engineer. He built the foundation for the Statue of Liberty, wrote many stories and received awards for his paintings. His first popular book was Col. Carter of Cartersville (1891). His 1896 novel Tom Grogan and 1898 novel Caleb West were each the best selling book in the United States in the year of their release.".
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Details
- Bookseller
- West Side Book Shop, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 9057
- Title
- Tom Grogan
- Author
- Smith, F. Hopkinson
- Illustrator
- Charles S. Reinhart
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin and Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1897
- Size
- Octavo
- Keywords
- LITERATURE 19TH-CENTURY AMERICAN FICTION NOVEL
- 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
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Glossary
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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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- 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....
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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