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Hans Breitmann's Ballads
by Leland, Charles Godfrey
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Beloit, Wisconsin, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co. 1914 Hard Cover. Fair/No Jacket. First Thus. Octavo. 236 pages. #244 of 350 copies. 19th-century comic verse in German-American dialect. Introduction by Elizabeth Robins Pennell. Decorated boards with title-label pasted on spine. Browned spine; wear to head and tail of spine and to corners of boards. Upper corner of front board is waterstained; stain extends to front end sheet and first 50 pages of book. Some foxing on rear end sheet. Edges of text browning. Binding is tight..
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 999640
- Title
- Hans Breitmann's Ballads
- Author
- Leland, Charles Godfrey
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co. 1914
- Keywords
- GERMAN-AMERICAN
Terms of Sale
Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
All books are subject to prior sale, though we make every effort to keep our inventory current. Books are returnable within ten days with prior notification. We will request extra shipping for large books and sets going to addresses outside the United States.
About the Seller
Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
Biblio member since 2006
Beloit, Wisconsin
About Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
Most of our stock is on-line only, though we have many books in three booths at Angela's Attic Antique Mall, 1020 Gardner Street in South Beloit, Illinois; a booth across the street at the Best of Beloit; and a large booth at the Lake Geneva Antique Mall, 829 Williams Street, Lake Geneva, WI. You may request to see any of our on-line inventory at any location with a few days' notice.
Glossary
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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....
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...