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The Fireside Sphinx (in original dust jacket)
by Agnes Repplier
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near Fine/very good
- Seller
-
Bordentown, New Jersey, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1939. Hardcover. Near Fine/very good. Hardcover in light grey cloth stamped in gilt with an image of a cat, over pink spine lettered in gilt. xi+ 305 pp. with chater heading drawings by Susanne Suba. Generally fine, all gilt bright, cute bookplate on the front pastedown featuring a black cat atop a small stack of books. In the original dust jacket also with black cat design, faded at the spine, price clipped. A treasury of cat-lore gathered from history, legend, art, and observation that was first published in 1901. Features chapters on The Cat of Antiquity, the Dark Ages, Renaissance, the persecution of cats, the act in art, etc.
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Details
- Bookseller
- The Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABNJ)
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- E28195
- Title
- The Fireside Sphinx (in original dust jacket)
- Author
- Agnes Repplier
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1939
- Keywords
- cats, feline, animals, pets,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Animals;
Terms of Sale
The Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABNJ)
TRACKING AND INSURANCE AT OPTION OF BUYER. ON UNINSURED ITEMS, OUR RESPONSIBILITY ENDS WITH PROOF OF SHIPPING---NO EXCEPTIONS! Books are returnable if misdescribed; we must be notified within 48 hours of receipt if making a return. We conform to accepted ABAA grading. "First edition" means "first printing" unless noted; if it doesn't say it has a jacket then it doesn't; faults such as ownership signatures, price clipping, etc. will be noted in the listing. Member ABAA, ILAB, ABNJ.
About the Seller
The Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABNJ)
Biblio member since 2005
Bordentown, New Jersey
About The Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABNJ)
The Old Book Shop of Bordentown is a general used/rare bookshop open to the public Tues.-Sunday 11AM to 5PM (8 PM on Fridays). 10,000 books on premises with another 25,000 in stock. Areas of speciality include baseball, New Jersey, American literature, mysteries. Member, ABAA, ILAB,Antiquarian Booksellers of New Jersey. Located in historic Bordentown City, New Jeresy (est. 1682).
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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....
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
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