The Florida Wilds: Being Tales of Adventure and Romance from a Land of Romance with Stories of Plantation Life
by Alberton, Edwin (Albert Edwin Philips)
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- 3/-1
- Seller
-
Grove City, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
The Neale Publishing Co., (NY), 1906. First edition. b/w photos. Hard cover. 3. Very good. No dust jacket. Ex-library. text block clean, crisp w/ NO foxing. Green cloth boards mildly frayed, especially at corners, spine ends. Includes illustrations. Old Florida stories, rare 8vo book; text block clean, crisp w/ NO foxing. Gilt stamped titling front & spine still bright. Discarded ex-lib. (Martin Co., FL) w/ card pocket & expected markings. Repairs at ffep, 1st title & back cover, w/ rfep torn out. PO notation in old hand "San Angelo, Tex", & underneath, "Ozona [ditto mark]" on last pg.
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Details
- Seller
- B8 Books and Prints
(US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- Alibris.0000029
- Title
- The Florida Wilds: Being Tales of Adventure and Romance from a Land of Romance with Stories of Plantation Life
- Author
- Alberton, Edwin (Albert Edwin Philips)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - 3
- Jacket Condition
- -1
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition. b/w photos
- Publisher
- The Neale Publishing Co.
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1906
- Keywords
- Non-fiction, history, Floridiana; rare book
Terms of Sale
B8 Books and Prints
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About the Seller
B8 Books and Prints
Biblio member since 2012
Grove City, Pennsylvania
About B8 Books and Prints
B8 Books started after I inherited my grandfather's library. We specialize in antique and vintage books and prints as well as imited edition books and books signed by authors and/or illustrators, especially association copies.
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- 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...
- 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...
- 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....
- 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....
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- Crisp
- A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...
- RFEP
- The portion of the endpaper which is left loose after binding. The first loose page upon opening a book from the rear. It may be...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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