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SENTIMENTAL TOMMY THE STORY OF HIS BOYHOOD
by BARRIE, J. M
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
-
New Haven, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
London, Paris & Melbourne: Cassell and Company, 1896. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Rich blue cloth over beveled boards, spine lettered in gilt. T.e.g. Glorious dove gray endsheets with the Cassell "La Belle Sauvage" medallion as motif. First edition, with a four page "Important Works ...," and the first state of the terminal catalogue, dated "6G - 8.96." Spine a bit faded, but a good copy overall with the bookplate of the Grolier Bibliophile and bookplate collector, Dorothy Furman.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Second Wind Books LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000012
- Title
- SENTIMENTAL TOMMY THE STORY OF HIS BOYHOOD
- Author
- BARRIE, J. M
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Cassell and Company
- Place of Publication
- London, Paris & Melbourne
- Date Published
- 1896
Terms of Sale
Second Wind Books LLC
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Second Wind Books LLC
Biblio member since 2022
New Haven, Connecticut
About Second Wind Books LLC
Second Wind Books is committed to offering important British and American first editions in the Modernist vein, with an emphasis on books about books, books by and about women and adjacent admirers. Literature, poetry, small and fine press, letters and manuscripts, original artwork, photographs, are what interests us most. Our founder began bookselling under the tutelage of a truly great bookman in 2006, and is now offering that learned expertise in her own shop. Interested in offers of literature from 1900 to 1950, either for sale or to evaluate.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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 State
- used in book collecting to refer to a book from the earliest run of a first edition, generally distinguished by a change in some...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- 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....
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Beveled
- Beveled edges, or beveled boards, describe a technique of binding in which the edges of book boards have been cut into slanted...
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