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Louise Chandler Moulton
by Whiting, Lilian
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
-
Bayfield, Wisconsin, United States
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About This Item
Boston, MA: Little, Brown And Company, 1910. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Missing/No DJ. Green cloth boards. Corners very slightly bumped and rubbed, Head and tail of spine rubbed. Gilt lettering on spine somewhat faded. Spine cocked. Edges of text-block darkened. Foxing and some soiling from dust to endpapers. Expected age-tanning to pages. B&w frontispiece of the poet as a young woman covered in lightly foxed tissue guard. Glossy b&w photo plates and facsimile reprints of letters from Oliver Wendell Holmes and Robert Browning to Moulton Chandler. Binding tight. An excellent first edition biography of the poet Louise Chandler Moulton- famous for her literary-figure studded salons in Boston and London- and an important figure herself in 19th century poetry. Poetry
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Details
- Bookseller
- Honest Dog Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- A803981X03I6U
- Title
- Louise Chandler Moulton
- Author
- Whiting, Lilian
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Little, Brown And Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston, MA
- Date Published
- 1910
- Pages
- 294
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
Terms of Sale
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30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Honest Dog Books
Biblio member since 2022
Bayfield, Wisconsin
About Honest Dog Books
Honest Dog Books is a family-run new and used general interest bookstore with a long history in Bayfield, Wisconsin. Owners Julie Buckles and Charly Ray are wilderness travelers with a team of sled dogs, two teenagers, and deep love for community, literature, and conversation.
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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....
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- 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...
- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
- Facsimile
- An exact copy of an original work. In books, it refers to a copy or reproduction, as accurate as possible, of an original...
- 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...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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