Dwellers in the Hills
by POST, Melville Davisson
- Used
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
-
Winchester, Virginia, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1901. First Edition. Octavo (19cm.); publisher's dark green pictorial cloth embossed in orange, red, black, and gilt; [2],vi,[2],278,[4](ads)pp. Textblock a bit shaken in binding, light edge wear, contemporary gift inscription on early leaf, else a Very Good, quite brilliant copy. HANNA 2917: "The mountaineers of West Virginia." SMITH P-542.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Lorne Bair Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 24283
- Title
- Dwellers in the Hills
- Author
- POST, Melville Davisson
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- G.P. Putnam's Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1901
- Keywords
- West Virginia fiction
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern Fiction; Social Fiction; Appalachia;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Lorne Bair Rare Books
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Winchester, Virginia
About Lorne Bair Rare Books
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Shaken
- A hardcover in which the text block is loose, but still attached to the binding.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- G
- Good describes the average used and worn book that has all pages or leaves present. Any defects must be noted. (as defined by AB...
- 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...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...