The Romance of a Midshipman
by Russell, W. Clark
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+
- Seller
-
Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: R. F. Fenno & Company. Very Good+. 1898. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 391 pages; 1898 R. F. Fenno & Company. HC 1st edition. Snugly bound and neat in original decorative pictorial cloth with pictorial designs blocked in red, black and gilt to cover and spine. Title designs bright and clean; cloth at spine just very slightly toned; lightly crimped at spine ends. First 3 leaves including verso of the flyleaf and title page with significant foxing, but the remainder of the pages aboultely bright with no foxing whatsoever (strange...). Mild dust top edge; prior owner name in pencil at front. 3 pages of publisher ads at rear. VG+ .
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Details
- Bookseller
- DogStar Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 45609
- Title
- The Romance of a Midshipman
- Author
- Russell, W. Clark
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- R. F. Fenno & Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1898
- Bookseller catalogs
- Decorative bindings;
Terms of Sale
DogStar Books
15 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 15 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
DogStar Books
Biblio member since 2020
Lancaster, Pennsylvania
About DogStar Books
DogStar Books is an open-shop used and rare book store located in historic Lancaster PA. We have been buying and selling scholarly, antiquarian and better books, images, and paper since 1991. We maintain a large general collection of over 40,000 titles on premises to serve our local book loving clientele. Out of town visitors and buyers are always welcome. Our online inventory at Biblio began in 2020 and we will be increasing our inventory here on a regular basis.
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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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....
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Remainder
- Book(s) which are sold at a very deep discount to alleviate publisher overstock. Often, though not always, they have a remainder...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
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