LEGENDS OF PROVINCE HOUSE
by Hawthorne, Nathaniel. Merrill, Frank T
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
-
Salisbury, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
Boston: S. E. Cassino, 1890. 1st Edition Thus. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition thus illustrated. 4to, vii + 104 pages, navy blue cloth with decorated panel front cover, beveled edges, plain battle gray endpapers, aeg, Profusely illustrated by Merrill. Moderately worn at corners and tips, front gutter slightly revealed, still solidly bound. Internals near fine.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Johnnycake Books ABAA, ILAB (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 011723
- Title
- LEGENDS OF PROVINCE HOUSE
- Author
- Hawthorne, Nathaniel. Merrill, Frank T
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition Thus
- Publisher
- S. E. Cassino
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1890
- Keywords
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Terms of Sale
Johnnycake Books ABAA, ILAB
returns within 10 days of purchase
About the Seller
Johnnycake Books ABAA, ILAB
Biblio member since 2006
Salisbury, Connecticut
About Johnnycake Books ABAA, ILAB
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- Beveled
- Beveled edges, or beveled boards, describe a technique of binding in which the edges of book boards have been cut into slanted...
- Fine
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- AEG
- All Edges Gilt. Describes a book in which the top, fore edge and bottom of the outside of the pages are decorated with gold...
- 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...
- Gutter
- The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
- First Edition
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