The Forbidden Garden
by Taine, John (Eric Temple Bell)
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good with no dust jacket
- Seller
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North Providence, Rhode Island, United States
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About This Item
Reading: Fantasy Press. 1947. First Edition. Hardcover. Trade issue. Orange brown cloth with gold gilt spine lettering/decoartion, 278 pages, illustrated [including pictorial endpapers]. Good or better copy with spine cocked, scattered light soiling to the cloth, minor bumping, some toning to the gutter portion of the endpapers, minor lower corner creasing; else the contents are tight and clean. Lacking the jacket. bx3
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- Bookseller
- biblioboy (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 66831
- Title
- The Forbidden Garden
- Author
- Taine, John (Eric Temple Bell)
- Illustrator
- A. J. Donnell
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good with no dust jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Fantasy Press
- Place of Publication
- Reading
- Date Published
- 1947
- Pages
- 278
- Size
- 8vo
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- SCIENCE, FICTION, MYSTERY, ADVENTURE
- Bookseller catalogs
- FICTION / Science Fiction / Adventure;
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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...
- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Cloth
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....
- Gutter
- The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
- 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...