The Wood-Carver of Lympus
by Mary E Waller
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
-
Pateley Bridge, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Item Price
€8.99€7.19
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About This Item
Boston: Little Brown & Co, 1907 Book. Good. Decorated Boards. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Moving story set in New England in the 1890's, of a young man, disabled by an accident, his life as a wood carver and his love for his young companion. 311pp. Black and white frontispiece from a drawing by C C Emerson, protected by a tissue insert. Olive green boards with embossed design of a face and a snake, within a panel painted with a green and black design of leaves and berries. Gilt lettering to spine. Bumping to spine and corners, top edges tinted, other edges slightly browned, with creasing to some page edges. Browning to endpapers, with dedication dated March 31 1908..
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Details
- Bookseller
- Washburn Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001354
- Title
- The Wood-Carver of Lympus
- Author
- Mary E Waller
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Little Brown & Co
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1907
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7&
- Bookseller catalogs
- Collectable Fiction;
Terms of Sale
Washburn Books
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About the Seller
Washburn Books
Biblio member since 2010
Pateley Bridge, North Yorkshire
About Washburn Books
Washburn Books is a small family business, based in Yorkshire. We offer a wide variety of hard-to-find and out-of-print books in our virtual store, as well as an offline search service. We take pride in our fast delivery of well packaged books.
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- 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...
- 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...
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- Leaves
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- Spine
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