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Wake-Robin
by Burroughs, John
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Good/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
-
Wilmington, New York, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Boston and New York / Cambridge: Houghton, Mifflin and Company / Riverside Press, 1902. Hardcover. Good/No Dust Jacket. Signed. Signed and inscribed by Burroughs (August 1903) to Addie Johnson (nee Barrus) on front blank endpapge - Clara Barrus was a longtime lover of Burroughs and this is a family member, likely a sister. Green cloth cover intact with overall wear. Gilt text on the spine and a gilt stamped facsimile of the author's signature on the front cover. Sonme wear to spine ends and bumps to corners. Pages with some age toning and light edgewear. Binding intact with a slight lean. Tissue at frontis with torn corner. Otherwise clean and intact throughout. Please see images. 233 pages.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Zephyrus Books, IOBA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- AS0900027
- Title
- Wake-Robin
- Author
- Burroughs, John
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Houghton, Mifflin and Company / Riverside Press
- Place of Publication
- Boston and New York / Cambridge
- Date Published
- 1902
- Bookseller catalogs
- Natural Sciences / Natural History & Nature;
Terms of Sale
Zephyrus Books, IOBA
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Sales tax will be added to New York State orders.
About the Seller
Zephyrus Books, IOBA
Biblio member since 2004
Wilmington, New York
About Zephyrus Books, IOBA
Zephyrus Books is an online only bookstore. A specialty is regional books and maps of the Adirondacks and Northern New York. We stock a wide variety of books, maps and prints.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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...
- Inscribed
- When a book is described as being inscribed, it indicates that a short note written by the author or a previous owner has been...
- Bumps
- Indicates that the affected part of the book has been impacted in such a way so as to cause a flattening, indention, or light...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Facsimile
- An exact copy of an original work. In books, it refers to a copy or reproduction, as accurate as possible, of an original...
- 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"...
- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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