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The Toiling of Felix
by Henry van Dyke
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Inverness, Highland, United Kingdom
Item Price
NZ$63.23NZ$47.42
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About This Item
The Toiling of Felix by Henry van Dyke, with illustrations by Herbert Moore and decorations by Edward B. Edwards.
Hardback, 1913, first illustrated edition, with tipped in colour plates and golden floral decoration edging, published by Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 70 pages.
Measures 8 3/4" x 5 3/4". Indigo cloth binding with gilt edging detail and lettering to front board and spine. Discolouration to spine. Some signs of shelf wear, a little tearing at top of spine and corners of boards, which are bumped. Binding reasonably firm, a little straining throughout but otherwise good, hinges intact. Upper page edge gilt, outer and lower edges deckled and outer edges a little jagged from having been cut. Some scuffing to upper edge and browning to outer and lower edges but quite clean. Previous owner stamp tp FFEP, the odd mark throughout but page surfaces clean, with no marginalia, underlining, etc. See pictures for further information.
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- GN Books and Prints
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- BIBLIO-085
- Title
- The Toiling of Felix
- Author
- Henry van Dyke
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Charles Scribner's Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1913
- Pages
- 70
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Poetry
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
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Biblio member since 2022
Inverness, Highland
About GN Books and Prints
Seller based in the Scottish Highlands, dealing in a variety of books, including antiquarian, vintage and modern.
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- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- Marginalia
- Marginalia, in brief, are notes written in the margins, or beside the text of a book by a previous owner. This is very...
- 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...
- 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....
- Tipped In
- Tipped In is used to describe something which has been glued into a book. Tipped-in items can include photos, book plates,...
- 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...
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- 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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