The Orient Pearls; Indian Folk-lore
by Devi, Shovona
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
-
Wilmington, Delaware, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1915. First Edition . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 177pp. Cloth over boards in good condition, corners and spine ends rubbed. Contents are age-toned (especially frontispiece tissue-guard) and rear pastedown has a some tape residue. Tissue guard at frontispiece has small chip to lower corner. Contents are clean., binding is tight and sound. Folk-tales told to the author "by various illiterate village folks".
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- Bookseller
- Old Bookshelf
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000181
- Title
- The Orient Pearls; Indian Folk-lore
- Author
- Devi, Shovona
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Macmillan and Co., Limited
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1915
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7&
- Keywords
- Brahmin Indian
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature and Fiction;
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About the Seller
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Wilmington, Delaware
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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...
- Tight
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- Spine
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- 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...
- First Edition
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- Jacket
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