The Yachtville Boys
by Davis, Caroline E. Kelly
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
-
Auburn, California, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Boston: Henry Hoyt, 1869. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First edition, Henry Hoyt 1869. Good original burgundy cloth with gilt baseball themed decoration on cover and gilt lettering on spine. Binding and hinges firm. Frontispiece and protective tissue. No interior writings. Scattered rubbing to covers, spine sunned, some shelf slant. Third oldest baseball fiction novel, first written by a woman. Quite scarce..
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bradley Ross Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 013877
- Title
- The Yachtville Boys
- Author
- Davis, Caroline E. Kelly
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Henry Hoyt
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1869
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction; Baseball; Childrens, Juvenile;
Terms of Sale
Bradley Ross Books
Paypal accepted. Prices net of shipping and handling. Media mail shipping $3.95 per book. Insurance extra. Books returnable within ten days if not as described. Bookplates and owner signatures generally not described.
About the Seller
Bradley Ross Books
Biblio member since 2005
Auburn, California
About Bradley Ross Books
We specialize in books regarding Baseball and other sports, Military, Religion, California and the Gold Rush, Astrology and Occult, and Vintage Sheet Music (particularly accordion music).
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- 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....