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Wally Wanderoon and His Story-Telling Machine
by HARRIS, Joel Chandler
- Used
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Winchester, Virginia, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: McClure, Phillips & Co, 1903. First Edition. First edition, second state, lacking terminal advertisements. Octavo (22cm). In beige publisher's cloth, titled in black on spine, with pictorial stamp in red, green, and black on front; [viii], 294pp; frontispiece and 31 illustrations by Karl Moseley. Clean and tight, with moderate shelf wear; last 30 leaves waved from water damage, but nevertheless: Good. BAL 7152 B.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Lorne Bair Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 54341
- Title
- Wally Wanderoon and His Story-Telling Machine
- Author
- HARRIS, Joel Chandler
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- McClure, Phillips & Co
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1903
- Bookseller catalogs
- Illustrators; African-Americana;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Lorne Bair Rare Books
Biblio member since 2006
Winchester, Virginia
About Lorne Bair Rare Books
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- 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....
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- BAL
- Bibliography of American Literature (commonly abbreviated as BAL in descriptions) is the quintessential reference work for any...
- Publisher's cloth
- A hardcover book comprised of cloth over hard pasteboard boards. ...
- 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...
- Second State
- used in book collecting to refer to a first edition, but after some change has been made in the printing, such as a correction,...