Magic Lantern
by Lady Eleanor Smith
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/Dust Jacket Included
- Seller
-
Catawissa, Pennsylvania, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1945. Stated First Edition. Good copy. Fair jacket. In maroon cloth covers with light blue lettering on spine. Untrimmed fore-edge. Clean, unmarked pages. Previous owner's name on front free endpaper, else all endpapers unmarked. Bumping of ends of spine. JACKET: Price intact on upper front flap. Half inch piece missing on lower spine. Chipping on upper edges. and lower edge of front panel. Moderate shelf rubbing and soiling. In new proetctive jacket cover. Thank you for your patronage.. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Dust Jacket Included. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Quaker House Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001814
- Title
- Magic Lantern
- Author
- Lady Eleanor Smith
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Dust Jacket Included
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc.
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1945
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- 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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- 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
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- Jacket
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- 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....
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