The Lost Boy
by Van Dyke, Henry
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+ with no dust jacket
- Seller
-
Silver Spring, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
New York & Londn: Harper & Brothers. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1914. First Edition. Hardcover. Henry Van Dyke. The Lost Boy. New York & London: Harper & Brothers, 1914. First Edition (Published Sept. 1914 and G-0 code - July 1914). 12mo (7 x 4 5/8 inches). 69 pages. 3 full-page b&w plates by N.C. Wyeth (minor foxing to plates mostly lower margin). Pictorial green cloth stamped in gilt on front cover, gilt letters on spine, endpapers blank. Very good plus condition, spine gilt dulled, minor foxing to title page, no owner's name, clean, no dj. One of three issues of the first edition, no priority stated. Allen, p.237.; 3 b&w plates; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 69 pages .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Dale A. Sorenson (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 4200
- Title
- The Lost Boy
- Author
- Van Dyke, Henry
- Illustrator
- N. C. Wyeth
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+ with no dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Harper & Brothers
- Place of Publication
- New York & Londn
- Date Published
- 1914
- Keywords
- Illustrated, Wyeth, Children`s
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
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Glossary
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- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- 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....
- 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...
- 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...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.