Michael Brother of Jerry
by London, Jack
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Deep River, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
New York: The MacMillan Company, 1917. First Edition. First printing Very good-, in red cloth covered boards with gilt text on the spine and gilt and black text on the front board with a black silhouette of two dogs. A 12mo measuring 7 1/2" by 5" with the cloth at the corners of the head and heel of the spine is slightly worn as is the cloth at the tips of the boards. The end sheets show minor foxing and there is an older, four digit price (?) notation on the first free end page. A neat and clean copy of London's 46th book. Only 10,320 copies of the first edition were published. (Sisson, p. 96) 344 pages followed by 8 pages of ads.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Town's End Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- TB01641
- Title
- Michael Brother of Jerry
- Author
- London, Jack
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- The MacMillan Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1917
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About the Seller
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- 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....
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Heel
- The lower most portion of the spine when the book is standing vertically.
- 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...
- 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...