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By-Ways in Book-Land _ Short Essays on Literary Subjects
by Adams, Wm. Davenport
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Paris, France
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About This Item
London: Elliot Stock, 1888. Cloth/no dust jacket Octavo. Hardcover. Good. green cloth,beveled edges, gilt lettering and decoration, ex libris, bookplate on front paste down end paper, 224 pp, cover scuffed at the corners, frayed at the ends of spine, rubbed, edges soiled
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- Bookseller
- San Francisco Book Company
(FR)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 95392
- Title
- By-Ways in Book-Land _ Short Essays on Literary Subjects
- Author
- Adams, Wm. Davenport
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Cloth/no dust jacket Octavo
- Publisher
- Elliot Stock
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1888
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About San Francisco Book Company
A general used English language bookstore on the Left Bank in Paris
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- Jacket
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- Bookplate
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- Gilt
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- Cloth
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- Edges
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- Octavo
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