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The Booming Of Acre Hill And Other Reminiscences Of Urban And Suburban Life
by Bangs, John Kendrick
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good with No Dust Jacket as issued
- Seller
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Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin, United States
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About This Item
London, England / New York, New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers. Very Good with No Dust Jacket as issued. 1900. First Edition: First Printing. Hard Cover. 266 pages: 5 x 7 in.: 1.2: KB#010078: No Jacket As Issued. Boards now protected by a new Brodart Archival Mylar Cover. Boards are dark blue cloth with gilt lettering on front and spine, plus gilt box designs and a small house on the front. All cover letterings and drawings are clean and sharp, but the spine is very lightly faded. Boards and pages are clean, unmarked (except for original owner's name and date - July 1900 - on front flyleaf and name/address again on p.119 near the spine), bright, tightly bound and sharp cornered (except for some very light rubbing at corners of spine). Book is slightly cocked. Contains 266 pages of short stories followed by a 6-page catalog of other Harper books of the time. The catalog starts with 'Mark Twain's Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc'. Scarce, Out Of Print, Book. : B&W Illustrations .
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- Bookseller
- KEENER BOOKS (Member IOBA)
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 010078
- Title
- The Booming Of Acre Hill And Other Reminiscences Of Urban And Suburban Life
- Author
- Bangs, John Kendrick
- Illustrator
- C. Dana Gibson
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good with No Dust Jacket as issued
- Edition
- First Edition: First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Harper & Brothers Publishers
- Place of Publication
- London, England / New York, New York
- Date Published
- 1900
- Keywords
- Fiction
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About the Seller
KEENER BOOKS (Member IOBA)
Biblio member since 2005
Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin
About KEENER BOOKS (Member IOBA)
Keener Books (Member IOBA) (Keener Books & Collectibles, LLC) is an exclusively online bookdealer, located in Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin, near Milwaukee, Wisconsin on the southwest side of Lake Michigan.We specialize in books relating to food, fine dining and entertainment, although we also carry books in many other subjects, mostly non-fiction.All of the photos shown are actual pictures of our books. We do not use stock images. What you see is what you receive.
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- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
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- Generally used to refer to a clear plastic cover that is sometimes added to the dustjacket or outside covering of a book. The...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Rubbing
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