Early Printing. Octavo, original purple cloth over boards, blind stamped floral pattern on front cover, decorated in gilt and with pasted color illustrated paper oval, deckled edge, color decorated dust jacket, color plate frontispiece, two additional color plates. Novella by John Philip Sousa, composer of military marches, about a violinist who makes a deal with the devil for a violin with five strings, the fifth of which causes the player's death if played. Near Fine in Good dust jacket, square-inch sized chip at lower front panel, 1/2 inch chip at top spine end, further chipping at edges, stain on rear panel, foxing, shelf wear. Seller Inventory # 43067

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Title: The Fifth String

Publisher: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Indianapolis

Publication Date: 1907

Binding: Hardcover

Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

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We strive to provide a large, high quality, and diverse collection of fiction published primarily before the Second World War and with their original dustjackets. With over 12,000 such titles in our inventory, it is one of the largest �for sale� collections of such material in the world. While our specialty is Jazz Age and Depression Era literature, we also maintain a growing collection of Children's and 19th Century Literature. We pride themselves on providing accurately described, high grade, and difficult to locate titles in all fields of literature.

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Babylon Revisited Rare Books
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