New York: The Macmillan Company, 1907. 1st Ed. hardcover. Near Fine. 12mo, 1907, First Edition, green cloth binding with gilt lettering, top edge gilt, corners lightly rubbed, owner's bookplate, book is tight and clean, 422 pages

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Bookseller: Stone Soup Books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 19175
Title: The Gentlest Art: A Choice of Letters by Entertaining Hands
Author: E V Luca
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Near Fine
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: 1st Ed
Publisher: The Macmillan Company
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 1907

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Established in 1982, Stone Soup Books is a small secondhand bookstore owned by Paul and Agnes Joy in the coastal town of Camden in Maine. With 25,000 books we cater mainly to readers with a large selection of current and classic paperbacks. We also have large sections of nautical, exploration, Maine, gardening, cookbooks, photography, and art books. Our internet stock includes out of print hardcover books, older children's books, and modern first editions.

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Tight: Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
Fine: A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Bookplate: Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...