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The Serpent in the Wilderness
by Masters, Edgar Lee
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
-
Providence, Rhode Island, United States
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About This Item
New York: Sheldon Dick, 1933. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 4to. 91 pp. Red paper boards backed in grey cloth with gilt titling to spine. Lacking original glassine jacket. Light soiling to boards and faint darkening to spine cloth. Light soiling to endpapers. Deckled bottom and fore edge. Red ink ownership stamp of noted illustrator Edward A. Wilson to ffep. Colophon states this is number 143 of 400 copies, signed in black ink by Edgar Lee Masters.
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- Bookseller
- small volume
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 439
- Title
- The Serpent in the Wilderness
- Author
- Masters, Edgar Lee
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Limited Edition
- Publisher
- Sheldon Dick
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1933
- Keywords
- signed, association copy, collectible, numbered, limited, colophon
Terms of Sale
small volume
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
small volume
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Providence, Rhode Island
About small volume
Small Volume is based out of Providence, RI. We buy + sell old, rare, odd, unusual, and otherwise collectible books + ephemera.
Glossary
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- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- 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...
- Colophon
- The colophon contains information about a book's publisher, the typesetting, printer, and possibly even includes a printer's...
- Fore Edge
- The portion of a book that is opposite the spine. That part of a book which faces the wall when shelved in a traditional...
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