AFTERTHOUGHTS (by a Grandmother)
by HOWLAND, Georgina Paine Fisher
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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ELLSWORTH, Maine, United States
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About This Item
Publisher's brown cloth over blue boards with paper label affixed to upper board, 12mo (7 1/4 inches in height x 4 3/4 inches in width), pp. 265. Warm year of publication gift inscription on free front endpaper from the author to previous owner. A bit of scuffing and rubbing at spine ends and on paper spine label. Small spot of discoloration on front panel near bottom edge. Upper board fore-edge protrudes slightly farther than lower board fore-edge, as in an overbite. GOOD and sound, withal. Author was the last surviving daughter of Union Civil War General Charles J. Paine. An uncommon title institutionally, with an April 2023 OCLC search returning Boston Athenaeum; Massachusetts Historical Society; New Bedford Whaling Museum; and New England Historic Genealogy Society only.
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- Bookseller
- T. BRENNAN BOOKSELLER, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3529
- Title
- AFTERTHOUGHTS (by a Grandmother)
- Author
- HOWLAND, Georgina Paine Fisher
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- [New Bedford, MA]: Privately Printed [by Reynolds Printing, Inc.], 1955
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Massachusetts; Genealogy;
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T. BRENNAN BOOKSELLER, ABAA
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About the Seller
T. BRENNAN BOOKSELLER, ABAA
Biblio member since 2013
ELLSWORTH, Maine
About T. BRENNAN BOOKSELLER, ABAA
Thomas Brennan was established professionally as a Bookseller in 1998 and still exhibits annually at several antiquarian book fairs. He has 25 years full-time experience in the Book Trade and is a member in good standing of The International League of Antiquarian Booksellers (ILAB); The Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America (ABAA); The Ephemera Society of America; and The Manuscript Society.
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- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Spine Label
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- Cloth
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- Rubbing
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- 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....
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...