Playing Trades
by Heraclitus Grey
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
-
Newmarket, New Hampshire, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York, New York: Cassell Petter and Galpin, 1886. second edition. Hardcover. Good. Disbound. Sold as is for its scarcity. Title page says "second Edition, with sixteen coloured illustrations" Octavo, 6 3/4" tall, 160 pages + unfortunately only 15 color plates (counted), gilt fore-edges, gilt titles, decorative green cloth with beveled edges. A good, clean hardcover edition overall with general shelf wear, cloth worn to the boards at the fore-tips, starting to fray at the top and bottom edges of the spine, BUT binding is broken and all signatures loose, paper generally clean and lightly yellowed (a few small finger marks). Terrific bright color illustrations. A good copy is only for the contents, not the binding.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Avenue Victor Hugo Books LLC (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 38100
- Title
- Playing Trades
- Author
- Heraclitus Grey
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- second edition
- Publisher
- Cassell Petter and Galpin
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York
- Date Published
- 1886
- Keywords
- short stories; Fiction; Juvenile; Children
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children;
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Newmarket, New Hampshire
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Avenue Victor Hugo Books specialize in first editions of the best in fiction, history, biography, poetry, drama, and essay. Our catalogue features careful, considered assessments of all of our stock. We are not flippers selling books by the pound. Instead, we try to limit our stock to books in a condition we'd be proud to place on our personal bookshelves.
For nearly 30 years, Avenue Victor Hugo Books was a fixture of Newbury Street in Boston's Back Bay, at one time holding over a quarter-million magazines and 150,000 used books. Awarded "Best Used Bookstore" multiple times by Boston Magazine, the store was a favorite of Boston-area authors and college students alike.
Since relocating to New Hampshire our shop has been featured on WBGH Boston News, WVCB's "Boston Chronicle," NHPR, and WMUR's "New Hampshire Chronicle." Avenue Victor Hugo has also recently been featured in "New Hampshire magazine," "The Boston Globe," UNH's "The New Hampshire," "The New Hampshire Union Leader," and "Foster's Daily Democrat."
Our store is open Fridays & Saturdays from 10am to 6pm in Lee, New Hampshire, less than 10 minutes from the University of New Hampshire.
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- Spine
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- Shelf Wear
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- Gilt
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- Beveled
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