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Gabriel Conroy
by HARTE, Bret
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Littleton, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Company. Good with no dust jacket. 1876. First Edition. Hardcover. An 1876 first edition of Bret Harte's only full-length novel, which is a romance set against the backdrop of the California Gold Rush. Bret Harte (1836-1902) was born in Albany NY but moved to California as a young man where he worked as a newspaper man. He wrote many popular stories and poems and later served as a diplomat in Europe. With 33 engraved illustrations by unstated artist(s). --- In full light brown cloth-covered boards with titling and decorations to covers and spine in black and gilt. --- Loosened hinges have been carefully reinforced prior to this listing, and with prior owner's signature to front paste-down, along with some small tears to gutter areas of first few leaves and dampstains to edges of many pages. Overall, a tightly-bound, well-preserved copy of this work by Mark Twain's contemporary and sometime friend.; Octavo - 8 to 9 in. tall; 467 pages .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bluebird Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 84162
- Title
- Gabriel Conroy
- Author
- HARTE, Bret
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good with no dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- American Publishing Company
- Place of Publication
- Hartford, Conn.
- Date Published
- 1876
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About the Seller
Bluebird Books
Biblio member since 2005
Littleton, Colorado
About Bluebird Books
Bluebird Books is the bookselling business of Eric Mayer, operating from my base in Littleton, Colorado. I specialize in classic fiction and literature, books on birds and natural history, railroadiana, biography, history and many other genres. Bluebird Books features publications by the Modern Library and Everyman's Library. I offer free shipping on books shipped within the US via USPS Media Mail. INTERNATIONAL ORDERS: I recommend that you use Biblio.com for your international orders because they have formed a partnership with Asendia to allow for much more affordable shipping on parcels weighing under 5 lb. (about 2.26 kg).
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Gutter
- The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- 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...
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