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A Story-Teller's Pack: Available Copies
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A Story-teller's Pack. by Frank R. Stockton
Hardcover
ISBN:
Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons (1897)
Seller: Books From California (Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: Good
Book Price: $10.00
Shipping: $3.99
TOTAL Cost: $13.99
Decorative cloth cover shows minor wear and rubbing, tanning on the spine, erosion at the crown of the spine. Pages tanned with minor foxing.
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A Story-Teller's Pack by Frank R. Stockton
Hardcover
ISBN:
Publisher: (1897)
Seller: Library House Internet Sales (Grand Rapids, OH, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: Very Good
Book Price: $8.50
Shipping: $6.99
TOTAL Cost: $15.49
Charles Scribner's Sons Former library book. Solid binding. Some pages are falling out. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item.
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A Story-Teller's Pack by Stockton, Frank R.
Hardcover
ISBN:
Publisher: CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS, NEW YORK (1897)
Seller: Princeton Antiques Bookshop (Atlantic City, NJ, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: Fair
Book Price: $10.00
Shipping: $6.00
TOTAL Cost: $16.00
decorative gilt on cover and spine, spine age toned, black and white illustrations, text block clean, princeton antiques bookplate on inside of front cover DATE PUBLISHED: 1897 EDITION: 380
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A Story-Teller's Pack by STOCKTON, Frank R.
Hardcover
ISBN:
Publisher: Scribner, New York (1897)
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA (Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: Very Good
Book Price: $20.00
Shipping: $5.50
TOTAL Cost: $25.50
First edition. Very good minus/hardcover. Hinge cracked. Name on endpaper. Spine brown. Edges of spine bumped. Nice gold gilt design on cover.
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A Story-Teller's Pack by Frank R. Stockton
Hardcover
ISBN:
Publisher: Cassell And Company (1897)
Seller: World of Rare Books (Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom)
Used Book—Condition: Fair
Book Price: $19.41
Shipping: $6.25
TOTAL Cost: $25.66
1897. No Edition Remarks. 380 pages. No dust jacket. Decorated green cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Illustrated by Peter Newell et al. Bookseller's stamp to title page, half title page and rear endpapers. Pages are moderately tanned and foxed throughout, heavier in places. Hinges are cracked with exposed netting. Binding is weakened. Water staining to some pages. Boards have heavy edge-wear with bumping to corners, crushing to spine ends and rub wear all over. Gilt lettering is darkened. Book has a slight forward lean.
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A story-teller's pack by Stockton, Frank R.
Hardcover
ISBN:
Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons, New York (1897)
Seller: Carothers and Carothers (Albany, CA, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: Near Fine
Book Price: $30.00
Shipping: $7.50
TOTAL Cost: $37.50
viii p., 1 leaf, 380 p. 16 pl. (incl. front.). Publisher's decorated cloth bright, minor wear to head and foot of spine; top-edge gilt, fore- and bottom-edges untrimmed; previous owner's signature at half-title else contents fine. 620 grams.
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A Story-teller's Pack by Stockton, Frank R. [Illustrated by Peter Newell, W T Smedley, Frank O Small, Alice Barber Stephens and E W Kemble]:
Hardcover
ISBN:
Publisher: Ldn: Cassell and Company, 1897. (1897)
Seller: Bookstand (Poole, United Kingdom)
Used Book—Condition: unspecified
Book Price: $37.37
Shipping: $5.31
TOTAL Cost: $42.68
A collection of supernatural tales including "The Magic Egg" and "The Bishop's Ghost and the Printer's Baby" illustrated with 16 full page plates incl. tissue guarded frontis. Decorated green cloth covers with art nouveau style blind stamping on upper and lower covers, gilt lettering on spine. Decorated endpapers. Small library blindstamp to verso of ffep. Slight wear to extremities, page edges slightly dusty, otherwise a VG tight copy. 8vo. 380pp.
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A STORY TELLER'S PACK by FRANK R. STOCKTON
Hardcover
ISBN:
Publisher: Charles Scribners & Sons, N.Y. (1897)
Seller: Booklegger's Fine Books ABAA (Park Ridge, IL, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: Very Good
Book Price: $50.00
Shipping: $6.00
TOTAL Cost: $56.00
A very good and tight copy. First Edition. Listed in Bleiler, 2107, Science Fiction The Early Years. Ownership signatures on second front free end paper. A much nicer copy than usual. No bumped corners to book. No cracked hinges. No loose pages. Top edge gold gilt. Just a touch of fading to spine.
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A Story-Teller's Pack. by Stockton, Frank R.
Hardcover
ISBN:
Publisher: New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. (1897)
Seller: Wittenborn Art Books (San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: Good
Book Price: $70.00
Shipping: $10.00
TOTAL Cost: $80.00
8vo., 380 pp., Very Good, Decorated Green Cloth With Gilt Edges of Text Block(top portion), sun-staining, rubbing, & edge wear on covers; front board dinged near head of spine (see image); some staining on end papers; pencil scribbles on end papers; the number 164 ink-scribbled on spine; some splitting in gutters of front end papers; shelf wear. Illustrated by Peter Newell, W. T. Smedley, Frank O. Small, Alice Barber Stephens, and E. W. Kemble. Provenance: John Ruyle. Binding design by Margeret Armstrong. Mylar Jacket. First Edition.
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Seller: Peter Ellis, Bookseller, ABA, ILAB (London, United Kingdom)
Used Book—Condition: unspecified
Book Price: $86.75
Shipping: $19.44
TOTAL Cost: $106.19
First U.K. edition. Octavo. pp [viii], 380, [8] adverts. 16-page publisher's catalogue dated 4.97, bound in at rear. Illustrations by Peter Newell, W.T. Smedley, Frank O. Small, Alice Barber Stephens and E.W. Kemble. Original art nouveau floral-decorated cloth. Patterned endpapers. Ten stories, including "The Magic Egg" and other fantasies.Contemporary (1897) ownership signature on front pastedown. Front hinge just a little weak. Very good, bright copy.
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A Story-teller's Pack. by STOCKTON, Frank R.
Hardcover
ISBN:
Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons, New York (1897)
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA (Rochester, NY, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: unspecified
Book Price: $125.00
Shipping: $7.50
TOTAL Cost: $132.50
viii, 380 pp. Illustrated by Peter Newell, W. T. Smedley, Frank O. Small, Alice Barber Stephens, and E. W. Kemble. Frontispiece and 15 plates. 12mo, later full crushed morocco, t.e.g., by Sickles. Original decorated cloth spine and front panel bound in at rear. First edition, probably second state. BAL 18926. Short cracks to front joint; joints and edges rubbed; spine sunned. Autograph letter signed by Frank Stockton, discussing his writing, Jan. 22 '86, tipped in.
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