Queen of the Porch, and Other Droll Stories
by Hubbard, Elbert
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good -
- Seller
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Lewisporte, Newfoundland, Canada
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
East Aurora, New York, USA : Roycrofters, 1920. Hardcover without dust jacket, green cloth covers with quarter leather, gilt top edge, green silk page marker, 125 pages; wear to spine ends but not to cover edges, spine gilt lettering still bright and clear, attractive professionally printed bookplate on free front endpaper, tight in binding, text pages very clean and unmarked, fresh and white (no foxing). . Hard Cover. Very Good -.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Eric James (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 038866
- Title
- Queen of the Porch, and Other Droll Stories
- Author
- Hubbard, Elbert
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good -
- Publisher
- Roycrofters
- Place of Publication
- East Aurora, New York, USA
- Date Published
- 1920
- Keywords
- FICTION SHORT STORIES American
- Bookseller catalogs
- Short Stories; Rare Books;
Terms of Sale
Eric James
Payment through Biblio, or directly we accept PayPal, money order or cheque (10 days for clearance within Canada before shipment). Shipping by Canada Post. Shipment within 48 hours of receipt of payment.
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
- New
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- Jacket
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- 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....
- Bookplate
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...