Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1882. First American Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Brown cloth with black impressed decoration on front cover and spine. Blind impressions on back cover. Gilt lettering on front and spine. Cover is clean with a hint of rubbing at corners and head of spine. Corners are sharp. Binding is sound, straight, and square. Green endpapers. The front endpaper has a fine crack in the gutter but not loose and the hinge is tight. Rear endpaper has a partial surface crack at upper end, again the hinge is tight. No ownership or other marks in book. Pages are clean and without foxing. All edges tinted orange. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 192 pages .

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Bookseller: James F. Balsley, Bookseller (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 17580
Title: Flip and Found at Blazing Star
Author: Harte, Bret
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good+ with no dust jacket
Edition: First American Edition; First Printing
Publisher: Houghton, Mifflin and Company
Place of Publication: Boston
Date Published: 1882
Bookseller catalogs: Fiction; American West;

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James F. Balsley, Bookseller

All books are warranted to be as described and genuine (unless stated otherwise in the description). Payment by check, US postal money order or cashier's check in USD will be accepted and should be made out to James F. Balsley. Checks may be held until cleared by the bank unless you are known to me. Checks must be drawn on a US bank. Credit cards are accepted through Biblio.com. Books may be returned for any reason within 10 days of receipt for a full refund of the purchase price provided the book is returned in the same condition in which it was shipped. If the return is because the description is inaccurate or other error on my part, I will also refund the postage both ways.

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James F. Balsley, Bookseller

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Williamsburg, Virginia

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About James F. Balsley, Bookseller

My business is strictly on-line sales. I carry an inventory of about 2000 books. About half of these are modern fiction. Most of the rest are scholarly academic books concentrated in the areas of natural science, philosophy, history, and literature.

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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...
Rubbing: Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
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...
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...
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...
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....
Good+: A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
Fine: A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
Tight: Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
Hinge: The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
Gutter: The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.