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The Secret of Lonesome Cove
by Adams, Samuel Hopkins
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/No Jacket
- Seller
-
Chico, California, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1912. Adams (1871-1958) was a muckraking journalist as well as a novelist (he also wrote more "risque" works under the pseudonym "Warner Fabian"). This mystery followed by a year his Queen's Quorum title, "Average Jones." A spectacular copy of the First Edition, as close to Fine as it may ever get. Green, almost umber, cloth binding, with architectural blinstamping on the front cover. Titling in gilt on the spine and front cover. Clean text; 340 pages. Frontis illustration and four others within by Frank E. Schoonover. Tiny ink notation on rear paste-down. Quercus has noted one turned-down page crease, else pristine. A treat for the fan of Early Mysteries. Lacking the dustjacket; in an archival plastic protector.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Illus. by Frank E. Schhonover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Quercus Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 005596
- Title
- The Secret of Lonesome Cove
- Author
- Adams, Samuel Hopkins
- Illustrator
- Frank E. Schhonover
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- The Bobbs-Merrill Company
- Place of Publication
- Indianapolis
- Date Published
- 1912
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Bookseller catalogs
- Early Mysteries;
Terms of Sale
Quercus Rare Books
We accept checks and money orders in US Dollars. Credit card orders are accepted through Biblio. California residents add appropriate sales tax. Items are returnable for any reason within ten days of receipt (please email or call first before returning item).
About the Seller
Quercus Rare Books
Biblio member since 2006
Chico, California
About Quercus Rare Books
Quercus Books seeks out and provides to the discriminating Reader or Collector noteworthy books in the First Edition. Our particular focus is on Modern Literature (roughly from the Second World War to the present) and Irish Authors. We also retain a small stock of non-fiction titles, mostly in the fields of American Western History, American Indians, and the American Civil War. Member of IOBA - the Independent Online Booksellers Association.
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- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....
- Paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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