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Old Creole Days Together with The Scenes of Cable's Romances
by Cable, George Washington; Hearn, Lafcadio
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Greensboro, North Carolina, United States
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About This Item
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1943. Limited Edition . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. John O'Hara Cosgrave II. Quarto. 224 (xxxi) pages. Includes slipcase in grey boards. Slipcase is worn with the edges partially broken on the right board, at top and bottom. Title in gilt on spine. Hardcover in red leather. Title and decoration are in gilt on front cover and spine. Spine shows leather wear. Binding has spotting, smudges and rubbing. All edges of text block are yellow. Red and white patterned endpapers. Text is toned. Illustrator has signed colophon page. 7 of 1500 copies printed.
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- Bookseller
- Pages Past Used and Rare Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 046356
- Title
- Old Creole Days Together with The Scenes of Cable's Romances
- Author
- Cable, George Washington; Hearn, Lafcadio
- Illustrator
- John O'Hara Cosgrave II
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Limited Edition
- Publisher
- Limited Editions Club
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1943
- Size
- 4to - over 9¾ - 12"
- Weight
- 2.50 lbs
- Keywords
- 1943; George Washington Cable; Lafcadio Hearn; Limited Edition; Signed; Collectible; Literature; Fiction; Slipcase; Numbered; Signed; Limited Editions Club; LEC.
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature & Fiction; Signed Books & Association Copies;
Terms of Sale
Pages Past Used and Rare Books
14 day return guarantee, with full refund if an item arrives mis-described or damaged. Buyer pays return shipping.
About the Seller
Pages Past Used and Rare Books
Biblio member since 2017
Greensboro, North Carolina
About Pages Past Used and Rare Books
Pages Past is a small used & rare bookshop located a few blocks from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Since 1996 we have been serving the Triad community as well as customers from around the world. We have around 15-20,000 volumes in our shop. We specialize in North Carolina, Virginia, Civil War, Old Leather, Christianity, Eastern and Western Philosophies, and the simply unusual. We very likely have the oldest books in Greensboro; we keep a nice selection of antiquarian volumes and scholarly books.
Glossary
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Colophon
- The colophon contains information about a book's publisher, the typesetting, printer, and possibly even includes a printer's...
- 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...
- 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....
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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....
- Quarto
- The term quarto is used to describe a page or book size. A printed sheet is made with four pages of text on each side, and the...
- 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...
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