Walking-Stick Papers (signed)
by HOLLIDAY, ROBERT CORTES
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- First Edition, First Printing. Near fine in original brown quarter cloth over tan boards, top edge gilt, and very good somewhat/Very Good
- Seller
-
Potomac, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
First Edition, First Printing. Near fine in original brown quarter cloth over tan boards, top edge gilt, and very good somewhat dusty dust jacket with a very small chip from the corner at the head of the spine. Signed by Robert Cortes Holliday on the front free endpaper. Very scarce signed and in jacket in this condition. Octavo. 309 pp. Frontispiece illustration of the author, from a lithograph by Walter Jack Duncan.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Grinning Cat Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 4809
- Title
- Walking-Stick Papers (signed)
- Author
- HOLLIDAY, ROBERT CORTES
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - First Edition, First Printing. Near fine in original brown quarter cloth over tan boards, top edge gilt, and very good somewhat
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- George H. Doran Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1918
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- AMERICAN LITERATURE
- Bookseller catalogs
- LITERATURE;
Terms of Sale
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Fourteen (14) day return guarantee, for any reason, and we pay return shipping costs if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Grinning Cat Books
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Potomac, Maryland
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- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- 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....
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Top Edge Gilt
- Top edge gilt refers to the practice of applying gold or a gold-like finish to the top of the text block (the edges the pages...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...