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The Early Poems of John Greenleaf Whittier
by Whittier, John Greenleaf
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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East Granby, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1887. Title page dated 1887. Whittier's poetry in an orange Victorian cloth binding lettered in gilt and decorated in black, all edges gilt, frontis portrait of the poet, all pages bordered with red lines. Light rubbing to the extremities, front hinge internally neatly repaired, firm binding, age-yellowed but clean and legible pages with traces of erased pencil marks on a few pages at the beginning, 1893 gift notation written at top of front free endpaper.. Hard Cover. Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
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- Bookseller
- Resource Books, LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 035622
- Title
- The Early Poems of John Greenleaf Whittier
- Author
- Whittier, John Greenleaf
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Publisher
- Houghton, Mifflin and Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1887
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7&
- Keywords
- POETRY VICTORIAN CLOTH BINDING
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction, Literature, Poetry, Literary History;
Terms of Sale
Resource Books, LLC
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Resource Books, LLC
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East Granby, Connecticut
About Resource Books, LLC
Resource Books, LLC deals in antiquarian and out-of-print books in a wide variety of subject matter, mainly non-fiction.
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- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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...
- 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...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- 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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