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THE GILDED AGE A Tale of Today
by Twain, Mark & Warner, Charles Dudley f4c
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- VG book. Very early. "Eschol" & most other BAL 1st state points.
- Seller
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Lyndonville, New York, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Hartford: American Publishing Co. VG book. Very early. "Eschol" & most other BAL 1st state points.. 1874 (1873cp). Early printing. Hardcover. VG book. 8vo, xvi,(17-574,(2)pp. Many in text illus & full page plates. Newly rebound in brown leather w orig spine labels. . According to BAL "AGE" just came on the market Christmas day, 1873. Firsts Magazine, vol 8 # 7/8 says it came on the market Dec 11, '73 and 12,000 copies sold that year. BAL & Firsts Magazine both state the very first printings had "Eschol" on pages vii, 27, 247 and 355,as does this copy. Eschol was quickly changed to Beriah. "Firsts" believes this corection nwas done in the 2nd printing. Very early copies also have the line repeats on pages 351, 2 & 3. This copy DOES NOT have these repeats. But it has all the other BAL 1st state points. BAL also says the genuine tp also includes "White" as one of the illustrators and "Wm H Lockwood" is on the verso, as does this copy. A variant tp contained neither White nor Lockwood. Not sure if these tp & cp points for the 1873 edition apply also to the 1874 edition. This copy is a very early printing. Fold out "SALT LICK" has been folded wrong but there are no tears. Tight, no loose pages, very nice inside. Just a few soiled or foxed spots. Labels are gilt lettered black leather so originally bound in sheep. Twain's indictment of the Robber Baron era, and the present!!!!! .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Quiet Friends
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001314
- Title
- THE GILDED AGE A Tale of Today
- Author
- Twain, Mark & Warner, Charles Dudley f4c
- Illustrator
- Fold out "Salt Lick" map.
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG book. Very early. "Eschol" & most other BAL 1st state points.
- Edition
- Early printing
- Publisher
- American Publishing Co
- Place of Publication
- Hartford
- Date Published
- 1874 (1873cp)
- Keywords
- VG book. 8vo, xvi,(17-574,(2)pp. Many in text illus & full page, plates. Newly rebound in brown leather w orig spine labels.
Terms of Sale
Quiet Friends
Visa, M/C, MO, Check. Shipping is free for a "regular" weight book. But for heavier books, and multi volume sets, we ask for any additional postage. Basically we pay the first $3.
About the Seller
Quiet Friends
Biblio member since 2008
Lyndonville, New York
About Quiet Friends
We sell about 75% internet, 25% book fairs. We have been in business since the early 90's. We pack extremely well. We describe very conservatively and have only a few returns in the 5000 orders we have mailed.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- 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...
- 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....
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Rebound
- A book in which the pages have been bound into a covering replacing the original covering issued by the publisher.
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- BAL
- Bibliography of American Literature (commonly abbreviated as BAL in descriptions) is the quintessential reference work for any...
- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
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