A Strange Discovery
by Dake, Charles Romyn
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good with no dust jacket
- Seller
-
Lincoln City, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
NY: H. Ingalls Kimball. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1899. First Edition. Original Cloth. Spine is soiled, and the owner's stamp is inside the front cover. Interior is "very fine," with some dusting of the untrimmed page edges. Minimal wear & slighted bumping to covers. Gilt bright on the cover.; 5x7 1/2" .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Robert's Bookshop
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 8586
- Title
- A Strange Discovery
- Author
- Dake, Charles Romyn
- Format/Binding
- Original Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good with no dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- H. Ingalls Kimball
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1899
- Keywords
- Literature, Fiction
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About the Seller
Robert's Bookshop
Biblio member since 2006
Lincoln City, Oregon
About Robert's Bookshop
Robert's Bookshop is a large used bookshop (in the same location for 31 years) on the beautiful central Oregon Coast. We are open 7 days a week, 1000 to 1730. We have upwards of a quarter of a million books in stock, so what you see online is only a very small portion of our inventory.
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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...
- 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- 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...
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
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