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Joel Chandler Harris. Balaam and His Master. Houghton Mifflin, 1891.
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Slight spine lean, front hinge cracked, light dampstain in the gutter.
Seller: Dunaway Books, St. Louis, MO, U.S.A.
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Book is cocked. Page margins are very slightly browned. ; Wright 3-2485. BAL 7122. Second printing.
Seller: Willis Monie-Books, ABAA, Cooperstown, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$42.50 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 293 Pp. Modern Professional Rebind In Green Cloth, Silver Lettering. Fine, Unworn, Pages With A Little Foxing. First Issue, Sheets Bulk 13/16" Thick.
Seller: Arroyo Seco Books, Pasadena, Member IOBA, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. Small octavo, bound in tan cloth with dark brown lettering and design. Age darkened along the spine, else very good. Binding is solid.; 293 pages B002WU6HSU
Seller: Grendel Books, ABAA/ILAB, Springfield, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. 12mo. 293 pp. BAL 7122 (printing 2, sheets bulking 11/16" and no dots in the spine imprint). Wright III, 2485. Very good. Original dark brown-stamped mottled tan cloth. (#5945).
Seller: Bartleby's Books, ABAA, Chevy Chase, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$110.00 + shipping
Description: First printing. 12mo (18cm). Beige cloth, stamped in brown; plain endpapers; 293,[1]pp; list of titles opposite t.p. Sound and tight, lightly cocked, gently rubbed, endpapers foxed: around Very Good. Short stories. BAL 7122, printing 1. WRIGHT III, 2485.
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 293 pages. 12mo, (7" tall). First Edition, First Printing with dots on spine and sheets bulking 3/4". Binding has slight slant and some very minor wear at top and bottom of spine otherwise attractive, now protected in mylar. Inner hinge is partly cracked, but holding strong. Interior of book is very clean (no foxing), tight, with no former owner's names or marks. Over all an attractive copy.
Seller: ARABESQUE BOOKS, Atlanta, GA, U.S.A.
Price: US$130.00 + shipping
Description: Small 8vo, pp. 293. Tan cloth stamped in dark brown. Red ribbon bookmark. Owner's bookplate on front pastedown, some yellowing on spine and spotting edges of cover, o/w a rather nice copy. BAL 7122; Wright III, 2485. Harris's sixth book, a collection of Georgia tales. It is in the first binding, with dots bracketing the "&" at the foot of the spine and sheets bulking 3/4 in.
Seller: Second Life Books, Inc., Lanesborough, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: First edition; Textblock near fine; binding very good, tight and clean, slight wear at head and foot of spine; 293 pages; As clean and bright a collector's volume as one is likely to find;
Seller: Book Den East, oak bluffs, MA, U.S.A.
Joel Chandler Harris. BALAAM AND HIS MASTER. Houghton, Mifflin and company, US, 1891.
Price: US$950.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Signed by the author on a tipped-in leaf ("Faithfully yours: Joel Chandler Harris). Harris's sixth book, a collection of Georgia tales. Bookplate inside the front cover with penciled notation above it ("Autographed by author for"). The bookplate indicates that it belonged to Frederick W. Skiff, a noted collector and bibliophile. Interior text is clean with only faint, sporadic foxing, mostly to endpapers and flyleaf. Text block is faintly foxed. Boards are mostly clean with only a few small marks on the back cover. Binding is tight with slight lean to spine. Pictures available upon request.
Seller: Atlanta Vintage Books, Atlanta, GA, U.S.A.