Colonel Carter of Cartersville (Signed)
by F. Hopkinson Smith
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Catawissa, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1891. First edition. In green cloth covers with stamped lettering in black on front cover and gilt lettering on spine. Signed by author on Title page. Frontispiece. Black endpapers. Intact binding. Clean and unmarked endpapers and text pages. Previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown. Ligthly slanted covers. Bumping and rubbing of ends of spine and corners. Moderate shelf wear. Photos upon request. . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Illus. by E. W. Kemble and Author. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
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- Bookseller
- Quaker House Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 004317
- Title
- Colonel Carter of Cartersville (Signed)
- Author
- F. Hopkinson Smith
- Illustrator
- E. W. Kemble and Author
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Publisher
- Houghton, Mifflin
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1891
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7&
- Keywords
- Fiction, Drama
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction, Drama;
Terms of Sale
Quaker House Books
Items must be returned within ten days of sale for a full refund if not satisfied.
About the Seller
Quaker House Books
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Catawissa, Pennsylvania
About Quaker House Books
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- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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....
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- 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...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
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