Gallantry An Eighteenth Century Dizan in Ten Comedies with an Afterpiece
by Cabell, James Branch
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
-
Staten Island, New York, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Harper Brothers, 1907. Hardcover, slate gray cloth heavily stamped in white, silver, and gold. Top edge gilt. 334pp. Illustrated with 4 boldly colored tipped-in plates, all with tissue guards intact, by Howard Pyle. Pictorial green endpapers. No name, no book-plate, etc. Mild age soiling and toning to binding, still a very attractive period binding, in the first state. Very good.. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Great Expectations Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 004380
- Title
- Gallantry An Eighteenth Century Dizan in Ten Comedies with an Afterpiece
- Author
- Cabell, James Branch
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Publisher
- Harper Brothers
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1907
- Keywords
- HISTORICAL FICTION, ILLUSTRATED, DECORATIVE BINDING
- Bookseller catalogs
- Illustrated;
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Great Expectations Rare Books
Biblio member since 2005
Staten Island, New York
About Great Expectations Rare Books
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- 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...
- First State
- used in book collecting to refer to a book from the earliest run of a first edition, generally distinguished by a change in some...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...