Gallantry An Eighteenth Century Dizain in Ten Comedies, with an Afterpiece
by Cabell, James Branch
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine with no dust jacket
- Seller
-
Silver Spring, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
New York & London: Harper & Brothers. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1907. First Edition. Hardcover. Color illustrations by Howard Pyle. New York & London: Harper & Brothers, 1907. First Edition (Published October 1907). 8vo. 334 pages. Elaborately decorated gray-green cloth, stamped in gilt letters and silver design and pale gray arabesque and frame, top edges gilt. An uncommonly bright and nearly fine copy in first state binding, tiny spot on top edge of front cover, minor rubbed spots at edges - one tipped upper corner of frontispiece has separated leaving tiny edge still adhered to blank page. 4 color plates, with captioned guards, illustrated green endpapers. No dj. Johnson (4th) p.87. ; 4 color plates; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 334 pages .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Dale A. Sorenson
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3266
- Title
- Gallantry An Eighteenth Century Dizain in Ten Comedies, with an Afterpiece
- Author
- Cabell, James Branch
- Illustrator
- Howard Pyle
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine with no dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Harper & Brothers
- Place of Publication
- New York & London
- Date Published
- 1907
- Keywords
- Illustrated Book, American Literature, Illustrator
Terms of Sale
Dale A. Sorenson
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About the Seller
Dale A. Sorenson
Biblio member since 2015
Silver Spring, Maryland
About Dale A. Sorenson
Used and rare books of quality in all subjects.
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- First State
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- Jacket
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- First Edition
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- Cloth
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- Fine
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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...
- 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...
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