Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1901. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1901. No Edition Stated. 455 pages. No dust jacket. Signed by the author. Vol. I. Black cloth with gilt lettering. B&W illustrations throughout. Minimal foxing and tanning to endpapers and page edges. Previous owner's inscription to front endpapers, with plate to paste down. Pages are rough cut. Mild wear and bumping to spine, board edges and corners, with small splits (approx. 1cm) to spine ends. Minor tanning to spine, with scuffing, staining and marking to boards. Sticker remnants to spine.

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Bookseller: World of Rare Books (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 1690968514ADA
Title: James Russell Lowell: A Biography Vol. I
Author: Horace Elisha Scudder
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Acceptable
Quantity Available: 1
Publisher: Houghton, Mifflin and Company
Date Published: 1901

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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....
Plate: Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
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