Monsieur Beaucaire
by Tarkington, Booth
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
-
Staten Island, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: Mcclure, Phillips & Co., 1900. First edition, first issue of the authors second book. Small seal after last page of text measures 1/2" in diameter. Bound in the original red cloth, with gilt stamping on front board and spine. Illustrated with six plates by C.D. Williams. Cloth shows staining along outside joint of front board. Old marginal dampstain at bottom of first several leaves and again at gutter of rear inner hinge. Still a tight, sound copy of this Merle Johnson High Spot and looks better than description sounds. Two old clippings from Swann Auction Gallery catalogs, dated 1973 and 1975, [with price realized penciled in] tipped in at front endpaper. Blanck p. 489. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
Synopsis
The young Frenchman did very well what he had planned to do. His guess that the Duke would cheat proved good. As the unshod half-dozen figures that had been standing noiselessly in the entryway stole softly into the shadows of the chamber, he leaned across the table and smilingly plucked a card out of the big Englishman's sleeve.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Great Expectations Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000409
- Title
- Monsieur Beaucaire
- Author
- Tarkington, Booth
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Mcclure, Phillips & Co.
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1900
- Keywords
- TARKINGTON, AMERICAN LITERATURE, FIRST EDITIONS, FICTION BOOTH TARKINGTON
- Bookseller catalogs
- Booth Tarkington;
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
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About the Seller
Great Expectations Rare Books
Biblio member since 2005
Staten Island, New York
About Great Expectations Rare Books
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Glossary
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- Gutter
- The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
- Tipped In
- Tipped In is used to describe something which has been glued into a book. Tipped-in items can include photos, book plates,...
- 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...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- 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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