The Stickit Minister and Some Common Men ( with A Prefatory Poem by Robert Louis Stevenson )
by Crockett, S. R
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Good+/No Dustjacket
- Seller
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Stanley, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: Macmillan, 1894. Book. Good+. Hardcover. Signed Limited Edition.. SIGNED, Limited Edition of this decorated American trade binding. "This Edition Consists of 350 Copies, of Which 100 Only Are For Sale in America" - with signature of author S. R. Crockett below. Clean golden brown cloth boards with gold decoration on cover, gold lettering on cover and spine. 1-1/4" split at front spine fold (carefully reglued); some chipping/fraying to cloth at spine ends. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound. Beautiful sepia frontis illustration with tissue guard. Printed on smooth, quality paper - pages are clean and bright; endpapers are foxed but free of any names, writing or marks. Many beautiful full page illustrations throughout. 290 pages with glossary..
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- Bookseller
- Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 31125
- Title
- The Stickit Minister and Some Common Men ( with A Prefatory Poem by Robert Louis Stevenson )
- Author
- Crockett, S. R
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+
- Jacket Condition
- No Dustjacket
- Edition
- Signed Limited Edition.
- Publisher
- Macmillan
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1894
- Keywords
- SHORT STORIES, LITERATURE, LIMITED EDITION, SIGNED BY AUTHOR, S. R. CROCKETT, ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON, DECORATED AMERICAN TRADE BINDING, DATB
- Bookseller catalogs
- Great Britain; Decorated American Trade Binding;
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About the Seller
Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
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Stanley, New York
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Glossary
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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....
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...