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Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe Compiled From Her Letters and Journals
by Stowe, Charles Edward
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good+/No DJ
- Seller
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Southampton, Massachusetts, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1889. First Edition. Good+/No DJ. 12mo = 7-9". n/a. Printing Not Spec. Blue cloth hard covers with gilt lettering and intricate gilt decoration. Gilt bright and in excellent condition, some very light wear along edges, two tiny stains on back, otherwise very clean. Top edge gilt. Some light browning to pages, very clean. Crack at page 192-3 but spine still very strong, all pages fully intact. With sixteen engraved plates with tissue guards. List of books by Harriet Beecher Stowe in rear. Author is her son.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Heritage Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- NF40120
- Title
- Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe Compiled From Her Letters and Journals
- Author
- Stowe, Charles Edward
- Illustrator
- n/a
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+
- Jacket Condition
- No DJ
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1889
- Pages
- 530pp
- Size
- 12mo = 7-9"
- Keywords
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Heritage Books
Biblio member since 2008
Southampton, Massachusetts
About Heritage Books
Our bookshop is located in the historic town library building of Southampton, Massachusetts. Southampton lies within the Pioneer Valley of Western Massachusetts with a view of Pomeroy Mountain to the West and Mt. Tom to the North. It is situated between the artistic, vibrant communities of Easthampton and Northampton and the city of Westfield. We have a collection of over 40,000 books with many more waiting to be unboxed and squeezed onto our shelves. The large double-door front entrance will lead you to our main floor where we hold a wide range of fiction and non-fiction titles, as well as a good selection of scarce and rare editions. The original fireplace is surrounded by hardbacks and you can peer out the original nine-foot windows. Take the staircase to the basement and you will find our large children's section and many shelves full of paperbacks. Our physical address is 225 College Highway/Route 10. Our mailing address is 241 College Highway & Clark St. P.O. Box 100 Southampton, MA 01073. The store hours indicated are by appointment only Monday through Friday, and Saturday and Sunday you can stop in. Please call to schedule an appointment if you can't make it to the store on the weekends from 11 am to 3 pm.
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- Top Edge Gilt
- Top edge gilt refers to the practice of applying gold or a gold-like finish to the top of the text block (the edges the pages...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
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