LOWELL'S WORKS - VOL 10 - WAR POEMS, HEARTSEASE AND RUE ETC. (INCOMPLETE SET)
by James Russell Lowell
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Blue Hill, Maine, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Houghton Miflin, 1890. Standard Library Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 5 1/2 x 8 in. Half brown morocco with marbled paper boards. Frontis with tissue. Condition s VERY GOOD ; mid shelf wear, covers extremely clean. Spine a touch rubbed at sides, spine gilt bright. Binding tight and text spotless with foxing to sides f text block and engraved bookplate on front pastedown. Poetry. RGR.
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- Bookseller
- Andre Strong Bookseller
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 12844
- Title
- LOWELL'S WORKS - VOL 10 - WAR POEMS, HEARTSEASE AND RUE ETC. (INCOMPLETE SET)
- Author
- James Russell Lowell
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Standard Library Edition
- Publisher
- Boston: Houghton Miflin
- Date Published
- 1890
- Bookseller catalogs
- Poetry;
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Glossary
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- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- Morocco
- Morocco is a style of leather book binding that is usually made with goatskin, as it is durable and easy to dye. (see also...
- 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....
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Marbled Paper
- Decorative colored paper that imitates marble with a veined, mottled, or swirling pattern. Commonly used as the end papers or...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- 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...
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