The American Lady
by Butler, Charles
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good+
- Seller
-
Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Philadelphia: Hogan & Thompson. Good+. 1845. early printing. Hardcover. Engraved frontis and title page; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 288 pages; 1845 Hogan & Thompson, Philadelphia. Early printing. Small format HC in dulled black cloth with titles blocked in gilt to cover and spine unlettered. Appears to have been rebound late 19th century. Engraved extra title page dated 1839; engraved frontispiece. Binding sound; light shelf bumping to boards at corners and mild shelf wear to cloth externals. Some largely erased stray pencil scribbled to the frontis and extra title leaf. Trace damp line to front endpage gutters; some pencil sums to the rear endpage. First two pages of text a little stressed, with a pair of shallow nicks to margins. Contents generally clean with just occasional light foxing. Uncommon early 19th C etiquette and guide for women. G+ .
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Details
- Bookseller
- DogStar Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 50793
- Title
- The American Lady
- Author
- Butler, Charles
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+
- Edition
- early printing
- Publisher
- Hogan & Thompson
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia
- Date Published
- 1845
- Bookseller catalogs
- 18th Century Subjects and Studies;
Terms of Sale
DogStar Books
15 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 15 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
DogStar Books
Biblio member since 2020
Lancaster, Pennsylvania
About DogStar Books
DogStar Books is an open-shop used and rare book store located in historic Lancaster PA. We have been buying and selling scholarly, antiquarian and better books, images, and paper since 1991. We maintain a large general collection of over 40,000 titles on premises to serve our local book loving clientele. Out of town visitors and buyers are always welcome. Our online inventory at Biblio began in 2020 and we will be increasing our inventory here on a regular basis.
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- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- Cloth
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- Rebound
- A book in which the pages have been bound into a covering replacing the original covering issued by the publisher.
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Title Page
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- G+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good. Good is defined as "describes the average used and worn book...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- 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....
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