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The Ruling Passion - Tales of Nature and Human Nature
by Van Dyke, Henry
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+/No Dustjacket
- Seller
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Stanley, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: Charles Scribner, 1901. Book. Illus. by W. Appleton Clark, Illustrator. Very Good+. Hardcover. First Edition.. Very nice first edition bound in 3/4 leather and marbled boards. Dark blue leather with raised ribs, gold and red decoration, gold lettering on spine. Light rubbing to corners and edges. Marbled boards are clean. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound. Clean, beautifully marbled endpapers - no names, writing or bookplates. Gilt top page edges. Title page done in black and red, with nice frontispiece illustration and tissue guard (total of eight full page illustrations by W. Appleton Clark). Eight stories, 296 pages..
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- Bookseller
- Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 30719
- Title
- The Ruling Passion - Tales of Nature and Human Nature
- Author
- Van Dyke, Henry
- Illustrator
- W. Appleton Clark, Illustrator
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- No Dustjacket
- Edition
- First Edition.
- Publisher
- Charles Scribner
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1901
- Keywords
- FICTION, SHORT STORIES, HENRY VAN DYKE, HUMAN NATURE, FIRST EDITION
- Bookseller catalogs
- Short Stories/Anthologies;
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Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
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About the Seller
Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
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Stanley, New York
About Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- 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...
- 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...
- 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....
- Marbled boards
- ...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
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