New York: The Century Co.. Good with no dust jacket. 1896/1889. Hardcover. Dark Blue cloth hardback. Contains eighteen black and white illustrations. Cover, spine and top edge gilt. Deckle front edge. FO name and very light soil to FFEP but no other marks. Light age tanning throughout. Frontice and pp 19/20 detached but present. Binding loose but holding. Wear to cover edges at spine and corners. Two publishing dates shown. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 326 pages .

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Bookseller: The Book Lady (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 792
Title: Daddy Jake the Runaway
Author: Harris, Joel Chandler - Uncle Remus
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Good with no dust jacket
Publisher: The Century Co.
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 1896/1889
Keywords: Children
Bookseller catalogs: Children;

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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...
FFEP: A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
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....
Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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...
Top Edge Gilt: Top edge gilt refers to the practice of applying gold or a gold-like finish to the top of the text block (the edges the pages...

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