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Three Modern Seers
by Mrs. Havelock Ellis
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
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Springfield, Ohio, United States
Item Price
$25.00$21.25
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About This Item
Mitchell Kennerley, New York, 1910. Edition Unstated. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Book VG HB with No DJ. 227 p.; 19 cm. Red cloth over boards with embossed frame on front cover and bright gilt title on spine. The "three seers" are James Hinton, Nietzsche and Edward Carpenter. Based on lectures she gave on these "prophets of a sane morality (p. [11]). Presumed first edition. Size: Duodecimo (12 mo; up to 7 3/4" / 17.5-20 cm tall). Item Type: Book. Text block is tight, but a bit tanned from age. Scattered light pencil marks in the margins (a straight vertical line to mark a passage). A couple of pages have slightly darkened rectangles from a calling card for Mrs. William H. Monk, Jr., (care Athelston Club, Mobile, Ala.), laid in. Binding is tight; corners sharp, but showing some minor shelf wear. There is a poetic inscription by the previous owner, William H. Monk, Jr., of Mobile, Alabama, written in fountain pen on the front endpaper: "A good book unlike any other friend | will wait, not only upon the hour, | but upon the mood; it asks nothing | and gives much. | -- Ariel [?] | With pleasant memories of | the Lake Michigan [unintelligible] on | Wednesday August twenty fifth. | [sig] | Mobile Ala 1915". Top edge gilt in good condition. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Philosophy; Ethics & Moral Philosophy; United States; 1900-1920; Main Picture: Ellis, Three Modern Seers (1910) - Front Cover and Spine. Picture 2: Ellis, Three Modern Seers (1910) - Title Page. Picture 3: Ellis, Three Modern Seers (1910) - Inscription by William H. Monk, Jr., Mobile, Ala., 1915 on front end page. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 986. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Quaint Book Shop, IOBA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 986
- Title
- Three Modern Seers
- Author
- Mrs. Havelock Ellis
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover (Original Cloth)
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Condition
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Edition Unstated
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Mitchell Kennerley
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1910
- Keywords
- BZDB22 Philosophy; Ethics & Moral Philosophy; United States; 1900-1920; Unbranded Mrs. Havelock Ellis Three Modern Seers
- Bookseller catalogs
- PHILOSOPHY; Ethics & Moral Philosophy;
Terms of Sale
Quaint Book Shop, IOBA
Ohio residents must pay the required state sales tax for intra-state sales. Thirty (30) day return guarantee, with full refund including shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Quaint Book Shop, IOBA
Biblio member since 2007
Springfield, Ohio
About Quaint Book Shop, IOBA
Quaint Book Shop is an online bookselling service that features regional and local history, classic children's and religious books and specializes in Kenneth Roberts books.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Top Edge Gilt
- Top edge gilt refers to the practice of applying gold or a gold-like finish to the top of the text block (the edges the pages...
- 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...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- ALA
- American Library Association
- 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...
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