- Bookseller: Lux Mentis, Booksellers
- Seller Inventory #: 4135
- Format: Hardcover
- Edition: First Edition
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Doubleday & McClure Co.
- Place: New York
- Date published: 1899
Book Description
New York: Doubleday & McClure Co., 1899. First Edition. Hardcover. Very light shelf wear, dated inscription on ffep, else tight, bright and unmarred. Green cloth boards, gilt and red ink lettering, red and cream ink decorative elements, grey/green topstain. 8vo. viii, 384pp. Author's first book. All points for first issue text block (e.g. "so pretty" on p. 245, line 16) and for first state boards (e.g. ear of corn pointing up). Onion skin paper with bookseller's penciled notes regarding points laid in. Owner inscription dated 1900. (Russo & Sullivan, pp. 3-6.) A very handsome copy of this classic.
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boards : Common term for the covers of a hardbound book.
tight : Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
gilt : The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book. The edges of the text block, or an inlay in the front cover of the boards, for example.
8vo : Short for Octavo, A book whose page size is approximately 8-10 inches tall. The size is based on a sheet of paper 25 inches by 38 inches, the size of paper traditionally used by book printers, which has been folded and cut into 16 pages..
Unfortunately often misunderstood to mean 8 volumes.
ffep : Front free endpaper. Generally, the first page of a book.
first state : used in book collecting to refer to a book from the earliest run of a first edition, generally distinguished by a change in some part of the binding or correction of the text which has been made in later versions of the first edition print run.
laid in : something which is included with, but not attached to the book, such as a sheet of paper.
Cloth : Generally refers to a hardcover with cloth covering the outside of the book covers.
shelf wear : Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
