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THE CENTURY ILLUSTRATED MONTHLY MAGAZINE
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Moderate Cover Wear/No Jacket
- Seller
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Prairie Village, Kansas, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York, London: The Century Company, F. Warne and Co., 1884. TWO VOLUMES UNIFORMLY BOUND. Tje bound issues from November 1883-October 1884, Volumes 27 and 28. Marbled paper-cover boards. Marbled endpapers. Top edges gilt. Spine gilt bright. Top of spines frayed. Internally clean and crisp throughout. Each volume full of articles, poetry, topic of the times. Illustrated throughout. Robert L. Stevenson's, "The Silverado Squatters" first appearance, pieces by John Burroughs, Frank Stockton, Henry James among a multitude of others. 960-960pp.. First Edition. 1/2 Brown Calf,. Moderate Cover Wear/No Jacket. Large, Thick Octavo.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Glenn Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 013881
- Title
- THE CENTURY ILLUSTRATED MONTHLY MAGAZINE
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Moderate Cover Wear
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- The Century Company, F. Warne and Co.
- Place of Publication
- New York, London
- Date Published
- 1884
- Size
- Large, Thick Octavo
- Keywords
- Magazine, Century Magazine
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
Terms of Sale
Glenn Books
All books are subject to prior sale. Books are guaranteed as described and may be returned to us within 10 days with immediate notice of intent to return the item.
About the Seller
Glenn Books
Biblio member since 2005
Prairie Village, Kansas
About Glenn Books
We are an antiquarian bookshop established in 1933. We are members of ABAA and ILAB.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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...
- Calf
- Calf or calf hide is a common form of leather binding. Calf binding is naturally a light brown but there are ways to treat the...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- Crisp
- A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...
- 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...
- 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....
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
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