The Bashful Earthquake
by Oliver Herford
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- good+
- Seller
-
St. Paul, Minnesota, United States
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About This Item
New York: Charles Scribners, 1898. First edition. Hardcover. good+. octavo. (8" x 5"). Pictorial cover. 126pp of 50 small poems. .Charming black and white illustrations throughout text by author/illustrator, Oliver Herford. Some darkening to spine and the lower one inch of front and rear covers. Head and tail of spine bumped. Oliver Herford (1863-1935) was a British-born American writer, artist and illustrator who has been called "The American Oscar Wilde
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Details
- Bookseller
- Midway Used and Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 51676
- Title
- The Bashful Earthquake
- Author
- Oliver Herford
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Charles Scribners
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1898
- Bookseller catalogs
- Poetry;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Midway Used and Rare Books
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St. Paul, Minnesota
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Glossary
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- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- 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...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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....