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Laddie; A True Blue Story. Illustrations by Herman Pfeifer
by Stratton-Porter, Gene
- Used
- very good
- first
- Condition
- Very good/very good
- Seller
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Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
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About This Item
Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1913. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth. Very good/very good. First edition of Laddie: A True Blue Story by Gene Stratton-Porter in the publisher's first state dust jacket.. Octavo, [8], 602pp. Blue cloth, title in white on spine and front cover. No additional printings listed on copyright page. Solid text block, a touch of wear to edges and corners, dust remnants to top edge. In the publisher's dust jacket, $1.35 retail price listed on spine, faint soiling to covers, chipping and wear to top edge and spine, some wear to flap folds. A very good example of a scarce first state jacket. Complete with three in-text illustrations and frontispiece.
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Details
- Bookseller
- The First Edition Rare Books, LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 12713
- Title
- Laddie; A True Blue Story. Illustrations by Herman Pfeifer
- Author
- Stratton-Porter, Gene
- Illustrator
- First edition of Laddie: A True Blue Story by Gene Stratton-Porter in the publisher's first state dust jacket.
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good
- Jacket Condition
- very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing
- Publisher
- Doubleday, Page & Company
- Place of Publication
- Garden City
- Date Published
- 1913
- Keywords
- first edition Gene Stratton-Porter, signed book Gene Stratton-Porter, A Song of the Wilderness, A Girls of the limberlost, Freckles Gene Stratton-Porter,
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- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- 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...
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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....
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Copyright page
- The page in a book that describes the lineage of that book, typically including the book's author, publisher, date of...
- 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...
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