Boston: Houghton, Osgood and Co. Good/No Jacket. 1878. First Edition. Original Cloth. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall Used In rust brown cloth with gilt titling and decoration to covers stamped in blind, edges dyed red, black endpapers, 12mo, 176pp. A scarce frist edition of this 19th century work. (shelfwear and rubbing to tips and corners, tips chipped, snag to spine strip 1 in. from bottom tip, cloth darkened and slightly discolored, upper half of pages show browning/darkening from previous smoke/fire damage, light warping to block at smoke darkened sections). Altogether a good reading copy of a scarce edition). .

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Bookseller: Vashon Island Books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 0779739
Title: In The Wilderness
Author: Warner, Charles Dudley
Format/Binding: Original Cloth
Book Condition: Used - Good/No Jacket
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Houghton, Osgood and Co
Place of Publication: Boston
Date Published: 1878
Keywords: In, The, Wilderness, Literature, Naturalist, History, Essays, Bear, Hunting

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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...
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...
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...
Rubbing: Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
Spine Strip: The material covering the spine, or the rear portion of the outside of a book.
Reading Copy: Indicates a book that is perfectly serviceable for reading. It may have a defect or damage. As such, reading copy is not a...
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...
Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...