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Soldiers of Fortune
by Davis, Richard Harding
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Chagrin Falls, Ohio, United States
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About This Item
Charles Scribner's Sons, 1897. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Good ; No jacket. 1897 Charles Scribner's Sons. First Edition. Date on title page matches copyright on verso. No additional printings listed. NOT ex-library. Illustrated by C. D. Gibson. Hardcover has tan cloth-covered boards with dark blue spine lettering; cover lettering is gilt with dark blue borders. Front cover has dark blue Gibson illustration of a woman. Black and white frontispiece with tissue guard. Five black and white plates. 364 pages. Binding tight. Hinges NOT cracked. Corners and spine ends bumped and rounded. Spine somewhat darkened. Covers have light surface and edge wear. Covers lightly soiled; back cover has a small stain. Imprinted bookplate on front endpaper. Gift inscription on front free endpaper in pencil, dated Christmas 1897. Page edges lightly soiled. A few page have light handling smudges in the margins; pages are unmarked. Pages lightly and uniformly tanned but still supple. No dust jacket. Carefully packed, shipped in a box.
Synopsis
"It is so good of you to come early," said Mrs. Porter, as Alice Langham entered the drawing-room. "I want to ask a favor of you. I'm sure you won't mind. I would ask one of the debutantes, except that they're always so cross if one puts them next to men they don't know and who can't help them, and so I thought I'd just ask you, you're so good-natured. You don't mind, do you?"
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Details
- Bookseller
- SmarterRat Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 11291
- Title
- Soldiers of Fortune
- Author
- Davis, Richard Harding
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Publisher
- Charles Scribner's Sons
- Date Published
- 1897
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Fiction
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;
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- First Edition
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- Tight
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- Jacket
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- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- 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...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Gilt
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