- Bookseller: Lux Mentis, Booksellers
- Seller Inventory #: 3869
- Format: Hardcover.
- Edition: First Edition/First State
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Harper & Brothers
- Place: New York
- Date published: 1919
Book Description
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1919. First Edition/First State. Hardcover.. Gilt at spine toned, owner signature on ffep, else tight, bright and unmarred. Black cloth boards, gilt lettering, color pictorial onlay, decorative endpages, frontispiece, plates tipped in, teg. 8vo. 32pp. Illus. (color plates). Decorations in Tint by Wilfred J. Jones." First state copy, with decorative endpapers and with the design on page 18 rightside-up. First separate and first illustrated edition, preceded by the 1906 "The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories" (unillustrated). (Blanck 3683; McBride 247). A handsome copy of this rather uncommon volume.
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boards : Common term for the covers of a hardbound book.
TEG : Top Edge Gilt
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. Also known as the back.
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.
frontispiece : A portrait or illustration on the page opposing the title page.
plates : Full page illustrations or photographs. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e., they are not sewn as parts of gatherings.
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.
tipped in : used to describe something which has been glued into a book, for example a bookplate.
endpapers : The first and last two pages (verso and recto) from the front and back 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.
Cloth : Generally refers to a hardcover with cloth covering the outside of the book covers.
