Oldtown Folks
by Stowe, Harriet Beecher
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
-
Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Boston, Massachusetts: Fields, Osgood, & Co., 1869. Book. Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. viii + 608 pp, tiny bookstore stamp inside fr pastedown, Printing D - five printings noted, no sequence established (BAL 19452), preface - Horace Holyoke, 50 titled chapters, 5.25" c 7.7" dark green cloth boards, gilt spne, with light cloth wear to extremities - corners pp 35-38 loose else binding tight and square, pages clean & unmarked, gilt spine letters dimmed but easily legible, paper well-preseved. Ships in glassine wrapper.
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Details
- Bookseller
- West Side Book Shop, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 007786
- Title
- Oldtown Folks
- Author
- Stowe, Harriet Beecher
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Fields, Osgood, & Co.
- Place of Publication
- Boston, Massachusetts
- Date Published
- 1869
- Keywords
- Harriet Beecher Stowe, 1811-1896,
- Bookseller catalogs
- LITERATURE;
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
West Side Book Shop, ABAA
Biblio member since 2006
Ann Arbor, Michigan
About West Side Book Shop, ABAA
West Side Book Shop, Located in downtown Ann Arbor, was established in 1975 by Jay Platt, a member of the ABAA. West Side Book Shop offers a wide selection of used and rare books.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
- 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...
- 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....
- Glassine Wrapper
- A thin, partially transparent or translucent paper covering often used ...
- 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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