THE SMUGGLER A TALE
by James, G. P. R
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About This Item
New York: Harper & Bros., 1845.. 164pp. plus several dated inserted Harper catalogues at end. Octavo. Printed terra-cotta wrapper with decorated upper wrapper characteristic of the "Library of Select Novels." Text in double columns. Inevitable foxing, spine chipped, diagonal loss at lower fore-corner of the lower wrapper, just a good, sound copy, with much of the section of terminal catalogues unopened. First US edition in this format, published as No. 56 in the "Library ...," in the same year as the London edition. NCBEL overlooks this edition in favor of an 1880 New York edition. NCBEL III:738.
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- William Reese Company - Literature ABAA-ILAB (US)
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- Title
- THE SMUGGLER A TALE
- Author
- James, G. P. R
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Harper & Bros.
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1845.
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With a catalogued inventory of over thirty thousand items, and a general inventory of over sixty-five thousand items, we are among the leading specialists in the fields of Americana and world travel, and maintain a large and eclectic inventory of literary first editions and antiquarian books of the 18th through 20th centuries.
We issue frequent, and substantial, catalogues in our fields of specialization.
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Unopened
- A state in which all or some of the pages of a book have not been separated from the adjacent pages, caused by a traditional...
- 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....