Money-Maker; or, The Victory of the Basilisk
by Optic, Oliver
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Sudbury, Massachusetts, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Lee & Shepard, 1873. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Brown cloth ove rboards. Gilt title on cover and spine. Stamped black on cover and spine. Corners bumped and rubbed. Top and bottom edges of spine bumped and pulled. Bookplate on front pastedown. Front hinge slightly loose. A few pages have soil spots.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bearly Read Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 084280
- Title
- Money-Maker; or, The Victory of the Basilisk
- Author
- Optic, Oliver
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Lee & Shepard
- Date Published
- 1873
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾
- Keywords
- THE YACHT CLUB SERIES
Terms of Sale
Bearly Read Books
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Bearly Read Books
Biblio member since 2022
Sudbury, Massachusetts
About Bearly Read Books
Bearly Read Books offers a selection of rare used and antiquarian books with a concentration on the classics, military and children's books.
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- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- 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...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- 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...
- 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...
- 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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