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Little King, The
by Bynner, Witter
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good in Fair dust jacket
- Seller
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Moab, Utah, United States
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About This Item
New York: Mitchell Kennerley. Very Good in Fair dust jacket. 1914. First Edition. Hardcover. Buff dust jacket with black lettering; maroon cloth boards with gilt title on spine; Bynner's manuscript annotations on front endpaper and covering entire rear endpaper and pastedown. From Bynner's library although not marked as such. Dust jacket has a ¾" x 1 ½" piece missing on front, moderate chipping and dampstaining at spine and moderate soiling; boards have light rubbing and wear to all edges; text block has light toning. Manuscript annotations reviews by individuals and newspapers of this work, and were copied into the book by Bynner. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 76 pp .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Back of Beyond Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 018161
- Title
- Little King, The
- Author
- Bynner, Witter
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Fair dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Mitchell Kennerley
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1914
- Keywords
- Poetry, Literature, Witter Bynner
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Back of Beyond Books
Biblio member since 2022
Moab, Utah
About Back of Beyond Books
Located in the heart of the desert southwest Back of Beyond Books is an indie bookstore in Moab, Utah. The name of the store was drawn from one of Edward Abbey's most well-known fiction titles, The Monkey Wrench Gang. We specialize in natural history, environmental literature, southwestern guidebooks & maps, Native American books, and Western history. But we also carry a wild assortment of fiction, science, philosophy, current affairs, rare books, and generally other cool stuff.
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- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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...
- 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...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- 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...
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