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Ballads of New England
by Whittier, John Greenleaf
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Stone Mountain, Georgia, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Fields, Osgood & Co, 1870. Hardcover. Good. Octavo. x, 92 pages. Illustrated in black and white. Green cloth hardcover with beveled edges, decorative gilt titles on the front cover and spine, and blind stamp title on back cover. Gilt page edges. Light shelf wear to the cloth binding, including frayed spine ends. Title page was glued to the right front fly leaf. Interior text very clean. Copyright 1869.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Americana Books ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 23860
- Title
- Ballads of New England
- Author
- Whittier, John Greenleaf
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Fields, Osgood & Co
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1870
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
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Stone Mountain, Georgia
About Americana Books ABAA
Americana Books in business since 1993 specializing in American History and Americana. Member ABAA ( Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America)
Glossary
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- Beveled
- Beveled edges, or beveled boards, describe a technique of binding in which the edges of book boards have been cut into slanted...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- 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
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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....
- 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
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
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