Daddy Jake, the Runaway, And Short Stories Told after Dark
by Harris, Joel Chandler & Edward. W. Kemble (Illust. )
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket
- Seller
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Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
New York: The Century Co. Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket. 1889. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 4to 11" - 13" tall; 145 pages; 1889 The Century Co. Larger format (quarto) HC/DJ. 1st edition. Snugly bound and very neat in original pictorial dust jacket. Bound in glazed pictorial paper covered boards with matching pictorial design to the jacket printed on thin paper stock - a notriously fragile dust jacket. Just superficial shelf rubbing to boards at corner tips and mild shelf tap top front corners. Small area of toning to binding material at crown where small chips from the jacket exposed the binding. Jacket is moderately toned to spine and adjacent areas of the sides as well as the front edge. Jacket is rubbed and worn with short closed tears and shallow chips at edges. Content bright and fresh, illustrated throughout with b&w drawings by Edward Kemble. Lovely copy in the very infrquently seen original dust jacket. Book is VG++ to NF in VG- jacket .
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Details
- Bookseller
- DogStar Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 47657
- Title
- Daddy Jake, the Runaway, And Short Stories Told after Dark
- Author
- Harris, Joel Chandler & Edward. W. Kemble (Illust. )
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition; First Printing
- Publisher
- The Century Co
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1889
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Early Dust Jackets;
Terms of Sale
DogStar Books
15 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 15 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
DogStar Books
Biblio member since 2020
Lancaster, Pennsylvania
About DogStar Books
DogStar Books is an open-shop used and rare book store located in historic Lancaster PA. We have been buying and selling scholarly, antiquarian and better books, images, and paper since 1991. We maintain a large general collection of over 40,000 titles on premises to serve our local book loving clientele. Out of town visitors and buyers are always welcome. Our online inventory at Biblio began in 2020 and we will be increasing our inventory here on a regular basis.
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- 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....
- Edges
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- Rubbing
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- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...