THE BEE-MAN OF ORN AND OTHER FANCIFUL TALES
by Stockton, Frank R
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good-/No Jacket
- Seller
-
Austin, Texas, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1887. [viii], 193pp+ [light chipping at spine ends; bookplate on front flyleaf] Title shown in list of New Uniform Edition series of five titles, but copyright and title page date both 1887. First Edition. Green Cloth Hardcover. Very Good-/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- David H. Gerber Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 302723
- Title
- THE BEE-MAN OF ORN AND OTHER FANCIFUL TALES
- Author
- Stockton, Frank R
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good-
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Charles Scribner's Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1887
- Keywords
- Fiction, Stories
- Bookseller catalogs
- Current Stock;
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
David H. Gerber Books
Biblio member since 2003
Austin, Texas
About David H. Gerber Books
David H. Gerber - Books is an Internet and referral only business that has been involved in bookselling and booksearching since 1989. We feature a very general stock of out-of-print books ranging from juvenile to erotica, from mysteries to expositions, and from the mundane to the sublime, but with an ever increasing emphasis on non-fiction, particularly in the areas of history, Texas, politics, scholarly, and the unusual and esoteric.
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- 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....
- Uniform Edition
- A collection or series of individual volumes of an author's work bound to match with a uniform size and style. Especially common...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- 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...