About Old Story-Tellers: Of How and When They Lived, and What Stories They Told
by Donald G. Mitchell
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- VG/N/a
- Seller
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Lutterworth, Leicestershire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
New York: Charles Scrobner's Sons, 1877. Scarce edition of tales and their authors, ranging from the Arabian Nights and Robinson Crusoe, to Scott and Bunyan. Brown covers with gilt lettering on spine and upper cover with black and gilt decoration, 237pp, with numerous b/w illustrations, some full-page, inc tissue-guarded frontis. Covers have modest wear to extrems and a couple of light marks. Some fore edges hand-cut. Light foxing to edges and prelims, neat gift inscription (dated 1928) on ffep. Overall book is in extremely good shape for its age. Ref:114813. First Edition. Buckram. VG/N/a. 13x19cm.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Church Street Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 004813
- Title
- About Old Story-Tellers: Of How and When They Lived, and What Stories They Told
- Author
- Donald G. Mitchell
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG
- Jacket Condition
- N/a
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Charles Scrobner's Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1877
Terms of Sale
Church Street Books
payment with order. Refund if description inaccurate
About the Seller
Church Street Books
Biblio member since 2007
Lutterworth, Leicestershire
About Church Street Books
Second-hand book dealer (formerly in a Diss Shop), with a stock of around 2000 books from modern quality literature to reference, aviation, classics and antiquarian
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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...
- Buckram
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- 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...
- First Edition
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- 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....
- 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...