Romantic Rascals
by Finger, Charles J
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near fine/Very Good
- Seller
-
Arvada, Colorado, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Robert McBride, 1927. First edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Very Good. Paul Honore. A gallery of rogues & wayward fellows including Luigi di Barthema, Count St. Germaine, Ali Pasha, etc. 251 pages. Woodcuts by Paul Honore in gold, black & white. Rare in dust jacket. Book bound in black cloth boards with gold titles, illustrated endpapers. Hinge starting at half-title page. Dust jacket, with $3.00 price intact on flap, has some rubbing, two 1/2-inch tears, & a 1/4 inch chip at top of spine. Clean and straight.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Old Algonquin Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 12209
- Title
- Romantic Rascals
- Author
- Finger, Charles J
- Illustrator
- Paul Honore
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Robert McBride
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1927
- Keywords
- True Crime; con-artists; biography; criminals; European history
- Bookseller catalogs
- Social Sciences;
Terms of Sale
Old Algonquin Books
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About the Seller
Old Algonquin Books
Biblio member since 2006
Arvada, Colorado
About Old Algonquin Books
Old Algonquin Books. owned by John and Helen Dunning, was an open store in Denver from 1984-1994. and has been an online business since then. Member: Rocky Mountain Antiquarian Booksellers Association (RMABA).All books with dust jackets have removable mylar covers on the jackets unless otherwise noted. First edition also means first printing unless otherwise noted.
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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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...