Barker's Luck, Etc.
by Harte, (Francis) Bret
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
-
Chico, California, United States
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About This Item
London: Chatto & Windus, 1896. This is a Very Good copy of the First English Edition, published at the same time as the American edition. Not common. Blue decorative cloth binding filled in black and gilt; decorative endpapers. 39 illustrations. Clean text; 263 pages. Bound in the rear is a 32-page publisher's catalog, dated September 1896, in a different (lesser) paper stock. The spine has faded, as has gilt on front cover. Bumped to a fray and with tender/cracked gutters. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First Thus.. Decorative Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by A. Forestier, Paul Hardy, A. Morrow, J. Gulich.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Quercus Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 002870
- Title
- Barker's Luck, Etc.
- Author
- Harte, (Francis) Bret
- Illustrator
- A. Forestier, Paul Hardy, A. Morrow, J. Gulich
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Thus.
- Publisher
- Chatto & Windus
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1896
- Bookseller catalogs
- American Literature;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Quercus Rare Books
Biblio member since 2006
Chico, California
About Quercus Rare Books
Quercus Books seeks out and provides to the discriminating Reader or Collector noteworthy books in the First Edition. Our particular focus is on Modern Literature (roughly from the Second World War to the present) and Irish Authors. We also retain a small stock of non-fiction titles, mostly in the fields of American Western History, American Indians, and the American Civil War. Member of IOBA - the Independent Online Booksellers Association.
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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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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....