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Birds and Flowers and Other Country Things
by Howitt, Mary
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Green cloth stamped in blind and gilt. Spine ends chipped, scattered foxing
- Seller
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HACKETTSTOWN, New Jersey, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Weeks, Jordan and Company, 1839. First American edition. Illustrated title, frontispiece and floral tail-pieces. 1 vols. 12mo. Green cloth stamped in blind and gilt. Spine ends chipped, scattered foxing. First American edition. Illustrated title, frontispiece and floral tail-pieces. 1 vols. 12mo. NCBEL 1286 which gives an [1855] date for this work; DNB gives the correct date of 1838 for the first edition
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- Bookseller
- The Old Mill Bookshop
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 223977
- Title
- Birds and Flowers and Other Country Things
- Author
- Howitt, Mary
- Format/Binding
- Illustrated title, frontispiece and floral tail-pieces. 1 vols. 12mo
- Book Condition
- Used - Green cloth stamped in blind and gilt. Spine ends chipped, scattered foxing
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First American edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Weeks, Jordan and Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1839
- Keywords
- British
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
The Old Mill Bookshop
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HACKETTSTOWN, New Jersey
About The Old Mill Bookshop
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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
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- 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...
- Cloth
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- First Edition
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