IN MEMORIAM. LELAND STANFORD, JR
by [Nash, Herbert C.]
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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New Haven, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
[San Francisco, 1884. 249pp., plus frontispiece portrait. Original white cloth, front board gilt, a.e.g. Cloth soiled and edgeworn. Portrait a bit foxed, early ownership signature on titlepage, else quite clean internally. Very good. In a cloth chemise and half morocco and cloth slipcase, spine gilt. A scarce, privately-printed celebration of the life of the young son of railroad magnate, Leland Stanford, who died of typhoid in 1884, just shy of his sixteenth birthday. A university in the San Francisco Bay Area was built as a memorial to him. The biographical sketch is signed "H.C.N.
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- Bookseller
- William Reese Company (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- WRCAM44209
- Title
- IN MEMORIAM. LELAND STANFORD, JR
- Author
- [Nash, Herbert C.]
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Place of Publication
- [San Francisco
- Date Published
- 1884
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William Reese Company
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New Haven, Connecticut
About William Reese Company
Since 1975, William Reese Company has served a large international clientele of collectors and private and public institutions in the acquisition of rare books and manuscripts and in collection development.
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With a catalogued inventory of over thirty thousand items, and a general inventory of over sixty-five thousand items, we are among the leading specialists in the fields of Americana and world travel, and maintain a large and eclectic inventory of literary first editions and antiquarian books of the 18th through 20th centuries.
We issue frequent, and substantial, catalogues in our fields of specialization, and we are equipped to produce smaller lists devoted to specific subjects with ease in response to requests.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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....
- 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...
- 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...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...