Love and Mr. Lewisham
by H. G. Wells
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
-
Catawissa, Pennsylvania, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Fredereick Stokes, 1899. First Edition. In red cloth covers with floral design and lettering in gilt with gilt borders on front cover and lettering in gilt on spine. Square and intact binding. Clean and unmarked endpapers and text pages, except for previous owner's written name and date on ffep. Bumping and chipping of ends of spine Page 1is detached. Moderate shelf wear. Photos upon request. . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
Synopsis
Love and Mr Lewisham is a 1900 novel by H. G. Wells, amongst his first outside the science fiction genre.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Quaker House Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 004088
- Title
- Love and Mr. Lewisham
- Author
- H. G. Wells
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Publisher
- Fredereick Stokes
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1899
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7&
- Keywords
- Fiction, Romance
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction, Romance;
Terms of Sale
Quaker House Books
Items must be returned within ten days of sale for a full refund if not satisfied.
About the Seller
Quaker House Books
Biblio member since 2006
Catawissa, Pennsylvania
About Quaker House Books
My book holdings are eclectic in nature.
Glossary
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- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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