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THE BEE-MAN OF ORN AND OTHER FANCIFUL TALES
by Stockton, Frank R
- Used
- poor
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Poor
- Seller
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Launceston, Cornwall, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1888. Book. Poor. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. A complete copy in the original binding but worn and ideally in need of rebinding/repair. 193 pages + adverts, map plate opposite page 136, original patterned end papers. Publisher's pictorial cloth worn and marked, frayed to head/tail of the spine, cloth to rear joint split. Contents good, complete, first three pages detached, bookplate label to the front pastedown, previous owner signature to the top of the title page, edges slightly worn, papges clean, no foxing. A poor but complete copy..
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Details
- Bookseller
- Loe Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 029175
- Title
- THE BEE-MAN OF ORN AND OTHER FANCIFUL TALES
- Author
- Stockton, Frank R
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Poor
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1888
- Size
- 8vo
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction - General;
Terms of Sale
Loe Books
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About the Seller
Loe Books
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Launceston, Cornwall
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- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
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- A book with significant wear and faults. A poor condition book is still a reading copy with the full text still readable. Any...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
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