THE WEB OF THE GOLDEN SPIDER.
by Bartlett, Frederick Orin (1876 - 1945)
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very good in dark blue cloth decorated with an embossed spider's web with gilt idol in the center, white lettering on front
- Seller
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Ione, California, United States
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About This Item
Boston:: Small, Maynard and Company,, 1909.. Hardcover first edition -. Very good in dark blue cloth decorated with an embossed spider's web with gilt idol in the center, white lettering on front and spine (some shelfwear to the boards, corners slightly bumped, but a tight and clean copy) . First printing. A Lost Race tale set in the Andes. A story of romance, mystery, intrigue and adventure which opens in Boston, where Wilson, a former theology student, now homeless and penniless, rescues a young woman from over-officious police officers - and moves from there to a sea voyage and to the remote slopes of the Andes in South America and a search for the famed treasure of El Dorado rumored to have been buried beneath Lake Guadiva. Illustrated with a color frontispiece by Harrison Fisher, with a tissue guard , and three black-and-white plates by Charles M. Relyea. viii, 354 pp,
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- Bookseller
- Bookfever.com, IOBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 87294
- Title
- THE WEB OF THE GOLDEN SPIDER.
- Author
- Bartlett, Frederick Orin (1876 - 1945)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover first edition -
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good in dark blue cloth decorated with an embossed spider's web with gilt idol in the center, white lettering on front
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Small, Maynard and Company,
- Place of Publication
- Boston:
- Date Published
- 1909.
- Keywords
- lost race, decorative binding, andes, romance, adventure,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Vintage books and paperbacks;
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Glossary
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- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Cloth
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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....
- First Edition
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- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.