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DELIGHTFUL DALMATIA
by Moqué, Alice Lee
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
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Williamsburg, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
New York and London: Funk & Wagnalls Company, 1914. 374 pages + 31 pages of black and white half-tone photographs and 8 pages of ads. Two color photographs: frontispiece and front cover decoration. Map endpapers. First printing of this travel book about Dalmatia, a vacation destination on the Adriatic coast of what is now Croatia. Alice Lee Moqué travelled to Dalmatia on their ninth "wedding tour" (because they had taken such trips nine consecutive years). All of the illustrations are photographs taken by the author, who had long been an avid student of photography. The book is clean and tight, with a tiny bit of color rubbing on the blue cloth covers.. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+/No Dust Jacket. Illus. by Alice Lee moqué. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Tennyson Williams, Books and Fine Art
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- W2278
- Title
- DELIGHTFUL DALMATIA
- Author
- Moqué, Alice Lee
- Illustrator
- Alice Lee moqué
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Funk & Wagnalls Company
- Place of Publication
- New York and London
- Date Published
- 1914
- Size
- 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall
- Bookseller catalogs
- Illustrated Books;
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Terms of Sale
Tennyson Williams, Books and Fine Art
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Williamsburg, Virginia
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About Tennyson Williams, Books and Fine Art
Our office, located in historic Williamsburg, Virginia, is open by appointment or by chance. We are antiquarian booksellers who buy and sell carefully selected books for collectors and researchers in many genre. We also sell important autographs and photographs as well as original art, including wood engravings by Winslow Homer and J. J. Lankes; lithographs by Miró, Matisse, Calder, Wengenroth, and others; and works from the American Etching Revival. You can reach us by telephone: (757)378-5400; or by email: twbooks1@cox.net.
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- 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...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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