Border Balads: None
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- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fair
- Seller
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Honomu, Hawaii, United States
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About This Item
London: Lawrence and Bullen, 1895. First Edition. Hardcover. Fair. C.O. Murray. To Harry A Merry Xmas! J. H. Magonigle 1894. Book plate with HP monogram and Italian text that reads: IF GOD LEAVE YOU, READER, TAKE FRUIT OF THIS LESSON. Introductory essay by Andrew Lang Only 750 copies printed for both America and England. Printed by T. And A. Constable, Edinburgh,Printers to Her Majesty.1895. Quarto, red cloth, 1st edition (1895), 87 pages + 12 etchings. Red cloth with gilt lettering. Contains black and white plates. Moderate tanning to pages, with light thumbing throughout. Heavy tanning to rough-cut text block edges. Inserts and inscriptions to front pastedown and endpaper. Inscription written by J. H. Magonigle, the manager and friend of Edwin Booth - the most prominent actor of the 19th century. Booth retired following the April 14, 1865 assassination of President Abraham Lincoln by his brother John Wilkes Booth. He feared the public response and worried that theatergoers would blame him for his brother’s actions. Edwin later returned to the stage where is career continued to grow. Harry P., the book’s recipient is Harry Phillips, and American Photographer who photographed Edwin Booth. Harry Phillips Photographic collection is stored in large part at the New York Public Library and has been displayed in numerous exhibitions.In terms of book ownership this one is certainly interesting meeting at the intersection of American History and the American Arts. Boards have moderate shelf wear, with rubbing and marking. Heavy bumping to corners and crushing to spine ends. Heavy tunneling on boards from book worms. Treated with 6 weeks of freezing to remove book worms. No bugs in this book, several pages have tunneling. Illustrations are etchings. Oversized or heavy volume, additional shipping charges will apply. Please ask for additional photos prior to purchasing. We are happy to send additional photos. 1LR
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Details
- Bookseller
- Kama’aina Collection
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- LM221141
- Title
- Border Balads
- Author
- -
- Illustrator
- C.O. Murray
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Lawrence and Bullen
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1895
- Pages
- 87
- Keywords
- Edwin Booth, John Wilkes Booth, Lincoln, Actor, Photographer, ballads, poetry, C.O. Murray.
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About the Seller
Kama’aina Collection
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Honomu, Hawaii
About Kama’aina Collection
Kama'aina Collection has been helping customers clear estates for 20+ years. We are located in Hawaii on the Big Island.
Glossary
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- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- 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...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Quarto
- The term quarto is used to describe a page or book size. A printed sheet is made with four pages of text on each side, and the...
- 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"...
- 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...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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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