In a Canadian Canoe, the Nine Muses Minus One, and Other Stories (Whitefriars Library edition)
by Pain, Barry
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very good
- Seller
-
Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
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About This Item
London: Henry and Co, 1892. Third edition. Hardcover. Very good. 210; [6]pp. Duodecimo [19 cm] Red cloth covered boards with gold lettering on the spine and front cover. Black endpapers. Six pages of publisher's advertisements at the rear. Extremities moderately bumped and rubbed; fore-edge of text block lightly foxed. From the collection of Berkeley book collector and letter press printer, John Ruyle, with his notes in pencil on the verso of the front free endsheet. The Whitefriars Library of Wit and Humour edited by W. H. Davenport Adams. With a magic shop in heaven.
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- Bookseller
- Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 57094
- Title
- In a Canadian Canoe, the Nine Muses Minus One, and Other Stories (Whitefriars Library edition)
- Author
- Pain, Barry
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Third edition
- Publisher
- Henry and Co
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1892
- Keywords
- pbhs; lot 48; early science fiction; essays; stories; John Ruyle; fancon
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About the Seller
Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA
Biblio member since 2006
Salt Lake City, Utah
About Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....