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Doctor Grimshawe's Secret: A Romance.
by Hawthorne, Nathaniel
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair./No Dust Jacket
- Seller
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Miller Place, New York, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Boston & New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1903. Hardcover. Fair./No Dust Jacket. Illustrations by Frederick McCormick.. With a preface and notes by Julian Hawthorne. From a set of The Writings of Nathaniel Hawthorne. Covers well bleached and soiled, water damage. Worn and frayed, both hinges cracked. Text whole and complete but some dampstaining to pages. Pages 398-9 darkened by a scrap of newspaper. 405 pages, top edge gilt, others uncut, some pages unopened.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Monkey House Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3527
- Title
- Doctor Grimshawe's Secret: A Romance.
- Author
- Hawthorne, Nathaniel
- Illustrator
- Illustrations by Frederick McCormick.
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair.
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Houghton, Mifflin and Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston & New York
- Date Published
- 1903
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Frank McDonald
Terms of Sale
Monkey House Books
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Monkey House Books
Biblio member since 2010
Miller Place, New York
About Monkey House Books
Monkey House Books is a mail order, used book dealer located on New York's Long Island. We offer quality used books in a variety of categories at reasonable prices. A home-based business managed by a lifelong bibliophile, Monkey House offers personalized assistance and friendly customer service. For the holidays, or anytime, we provide gift wrapping and recipient shipping upon request. We ship within 24 hours of receiving payment, and packages are wrapped and boxed using recycled/reused materials.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Unopened
- A state in which all or some of the pages of a book have not been separated from the adjacent pages, caused by a traditional...
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- 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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