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Partners of Chance
by KNIBBS, Henry Herbert
- Used
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
-
Winchester, Virginia, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1921. First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Red cloth hardover; 231pp. Slight soiling to text block edges; bit of rubbing and wear to cloth at spine ends and extremities; Very Good, lacking the dustwrapper. With the pencil ownership signature of a Margaret Delaplain, of Delaplane, Virginia.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Lorne Bair Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 62288
- Title
- Partners of Chance
- Author
- KNIBBS, Henry Herbert
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1921
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern Fiction;
Terms of Sale
Lorne Bair Rare Books
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About the Seller
Lorne Bair Rare Books
Biblio member since 2006
Winchester, Virginia
About Lorne Bair Rare Books
Lorne Bair Rare Books specializes in books, mansuscripts, and printed ephemera relating to American Social History, with an emphasis on radical and utopian movements of the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. We are available in our showroom by appointment, at shows, and on-line through various booksellers' sites or at our website www.lornebair.com.
Glossary
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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...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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...
- 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...
- Dustwrapper
- Also known as book jacket, dust cover, or dust wrapper, a dust jacket is a protective and decorative cover for a book that is...