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Palmetto Leaves
by Stowe, Harriet Beecher
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good with no dust jacket
- Seller
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High Point, North Carolina, United States
Item Price
€65.27€48.95
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About This Item
Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1873. First Edition. Hardcover. Good with no dust jacket. First Edition. Exlibrary marks. Lightly circulated. Book is shaken, slightly cocked. Binding and hinges. sound. Ffep has been removed from the book. Pages clean, tanned. Tissue over frontispiece map is loose in book. Illustrated with drawings, illustrator unknown. Cloth over boards is edge rubbed with heavier wear at corner tips and extremities of spine. Bright gilt lettering and design on front and spine. ; Memoir and travel guide written by Stowe about her winters in the town of Mandarin, Florida, ; Ex-Library; 6.75" (17 cm) tall; 321 pages.
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Details
- Seller
- Cat's Cradle Books
(US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 3580100
- Title
- Palmetto Leaves
- Author
- Stowe, Harriet Beecher
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good with no dust jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- James R. Osgood and Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1873
- Keywords
- TRAVEL, MEMOIR, AUTOBIOGRAPHY, FLORIDA, HARRIET BEECHER STOWE
- Bookseller catalogs
- Travel; Americana;
Terms of Sale
Cat's Cradle Books
Shipment immediately upon payment. Returns cheerfully accepted. If return results from our error, we refund price of book plus all shipping costs. if return is for any other reason, buyer pays cost of return shipping.
About the Seller
Cat's Cradle Books
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High Point, North Carolina
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Glossary
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Shaken
- A hardcover in which the text block is loose, but still attached to the binding.
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- 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...
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