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Legends of The Province House
by Hawthorne, Nathaniel
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair/No Jacket
- Seller
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Rio Rancho, New Mexico, United States
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About This Item
New York: Hurst & Co. New York: Hurst & Co. 255 pp with an engraving of Hawthorne frontis. No date of publication given but from the binding I believe it is 1890's thereabouts. Hurst Publishing produced an number of12mo series of inexpensive reprint books of poetry and classics in the last decade of the Nineteenth Century.Text is clean, tight and unmarked. Front hinge is cracked but holding. Dark red cloth boards have a handsome stamped geometric pattern on front board and gold-stamped title on spine. Spine is bumped at both ends, lightly sunned. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket.. Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Catron Grant Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001096
- Title
- Legends of The Province House
- Author
- Hawthorne, Nathaniel
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Publisher
- Hurst & Co.
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Keywords
- AMERICAN LITERATURE - SHORT STORIES
- Bookseller catalogs
- Short Story Collections;
Terms of Sale
Catron Grant Books
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged. Books must be returned in the condition in which they were sold. No returns on books valued at less than $9.00.
About the Seller
Catron Grant Books
Biblio member since 2012
Rio Rancho, New Mexico
About Catron Grant Books
Specializing in olderbooks on travel and exploration in Asia, and World War II Pacific and Southeast Asia.Online sales and antiquarian book shows in the American West.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
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