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A COLLECTION OF TALES OF TWO COUNTRIES Written in the 19th Century
by Trollope, Anthony; Irving, Washington; Goldsmith, Oliver; Murfee, Mary Noailles; Wilson,J. M.; Harte, Bret; Pope Pius XII;
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- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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About This Item
Chicago, Illinois: The Cuno Press, 1955. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Type: Hardback First Edition. Hardcover Book in Very Good Condition. No jacket. This Fourteenth Volume of the Annual Christmas Book from Cuneo Press is a blend of early Americana of historic England, a prose pageant of the great and popular stories of various eras. Original illustrations especially prepared for this volume. Clean, bright and unmarked red cloth with elaborate gilt design on the spine, gilt panel with red gothic-type lettering. Board edges and corners are rubbed. Top edge gilt. Fore-edge rough cut. Sewn binding tight and solid. Former owner name on paste-down. Rear endpapers have brownish spotting at lower hinge. Very attractive design with red script headings; each page in the stories has the book title in red on the verso and the story title on the recto, with large margins; illustrations at the beginning of each story, titled in red lettering, each specially prepared for this edition. Paper is heavy, pages quite clean, no markings of any kind. A very nice volume with stories by Anthony Trollope, Washington Irving, Oliver Goldsmith, Mary Noailles Murfee, J M Wilson, Bret Harte, and Pope Pius XII. 203 pages. 6.5 x 9.5 inches. 1955, The Cuno Press, Chicago, Illinois.
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- Bookseller
- The Parnassus BookShop
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 025109
- Title
- A COLLECTION OF TALES OF TWO COUNTRIES Written in the 19th Century
- Author
- Trollope, Anthony; Irving, Washington; Goldsmith, Oliver; Murfee, Mary Noailles; Wilson,J. M.; Harte, Bret; Pope Pius XII;
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- The Cuno Press
- Place of Publication
- Chicago, Illinois
- Date Published
- 1955
- Size
- 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" t
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- LITERATURE CHRISTMAS STORIES
- Bookseller catalogs
- Christmas, Holiday, Gift Books;
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- Hinge
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- Cloth
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- Gilt
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- Edges
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- Jacket
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- First Edition
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- Paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Recto
- The page on the right side of a book, with the term Verso used to describe the page on the left side.
- Top Edge Gilt
- Top edge gilt refers to the practice of applying gold or a gold-like finish to the top of the text block (the edges the pages...
- 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....
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
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