The Broken Soldier and the Maid of France
by Van Dyke, Henry
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good with no dust jacket
- Seller
-
Silver Spring, Maryland, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York & London: Harper & Brothers. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1919. First Edition. Hardcover. New York & London: Harper & Brothers, 1919. First Edition (code H-T, August 1919). 12mo. 70 pages. Pictorial blue cloth stamped in gilt, top edges tinted pale yellow. Cloth lightly worn and soiled, endpapers and title leaf lightly foxed, no owner's name. Frontis and one other plate in b&w, by Frank E. Schoonover, one drawing, and three decorated initials.; 2 plates; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 70 pages .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Dale A. Sorenson (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3267
- Title
- The Broken Soldier and the Maid of France
- Author
- Van Dyke, Henry
- Illustrator
- Frank E. Schoonover
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good with no dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Harper & Brothers
- Place of Publication
- New York & London
- Date Published
- 1919
- Keywords
- American Literature, World War I, War Fiction
Terms of Sale
Dale A. Sorenson
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About the Seller
Dale A. Sorenson
Biblio member since 2015
Silver Spring, Maryland
About Dale A. Sorenson
Used and rare books of quality in all subjects.
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- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- 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...
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- 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...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...