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The Keeper Of The Bees; Decorations By Lee Thayer. Illustrations By Gordon Grant
by Stratton-Porter, Gene
- Used
- near fine
- first
- Condition
- Near fine/very good
- Seller
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Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
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About This Item
Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1925. First Edition, Second Printing. Cloth. Near fine/very good. First edition of The Keeper of the Bees by Gene Stratton-Porter.. Octavo, [14], 515pp. Cloth, title in navy blue on spine and cover, with color illustrations stamped on front cover. Illustrated endpapers. Lacking the first edition statement on the copyright page. Solid text block, a touch of wear to corners, a near fine example. In publisher's first state dust jacket, $2.00 retail price on front flap, some wear to edges and flap folds, spine rubbed, chipping to spine tips. A vibrant example. Previous ownership inscription on half-title. Complete with full-page plates and a frontispiece.
Reviews
On Apr 23 2014, a reader said:
This is a wonderful book. It's the story of one man's journey to heal himself both physically and spiritually. How in reaching out to help others he remembers his roots and returns to them. A great story.
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Details
- Bookseller
- The First Edition Rare Books, LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 12714
- Title
- The Keeper Of The Bees; Decorations By Lee Thayer. Illustrations By Gordon Grant
- Author
- Stratton-Porter, Gene
- Illustrator
- First edition of The Keeper of the Bees by Gene Stratton-Porter.
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Near fine
- Jacket Condition
- very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, Second Printing
- Publisher
- Doubleday, Page & Company
- Place of Publication
- Garden City
- Date Published
- 1925
- Keywords
- first edition Gene Stratton-Porter, signed book Gene Stratton-Porter, A Song of the Wilderness, A Girls of the limberlost, Freckles Gene Stratton-Porter,
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Cincinnati, Ohio
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- First State
- used in book collecting to refer to a book from the earliest run of a first edition, generally distinguished by a change in some...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- 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...
- Cloth
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- 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....
- Copyright page
- The page in a book that describes the lineage of that book, typically including the book's author, publisher, date of...
- 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...
- 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....
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
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