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First edition

What Happened at Olenberg

Clifford Howard
Reilly & Britton, 1911. First edition, first printing.
$120One copy · this copy

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What we checked, and where to see itRCB-1d09195bedba · 9 photographs of this copy
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Reilly & Britton Co. imprint (used 1902-1919, before the Reilly & Lee rename)
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Copyright page states only "Copyright, 1911 by The Reilly & Britton Co." with no later-printing notation
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Pictorial cloth boards with color-illustrated front cover and spine vignette
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No number line (not used by this house/era)
examined on the copy in hand
Flaws, each one named
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Heavy rubbing and soiling to cloth, both boards
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Frayed/worn spine ends, head and tail
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Rubbed/chipped cloth along spine
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Cracked/starting inner hinge, front gutter exposed
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Previous-owner ink inscriptions, front free endpaper
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Pencil "10", top corner of front free endpaper
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Toning/age to text leaves
This copy
First edition

What a true first shows: Reilly & Britton Co., Chicago, 1911, pictorial cloth

Photographs show the exact copy you will receive. Every flaw we found is listed above; if we missed one, the return is on us.