THE PENNSYLVANIA PILGRIM AND OTHER POEMS
by WHITTIER, JOHN GREENLEAF
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Light edge and Corner Wear/No Jacket
- Seller
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Prairie Village, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1872. Front cover and spine lettered and designed in gilt. Bevelled edges.Corners lightly worn. Spine extremities frayed. Original brown endpapers. Frontispiece illustration with tissue-guard. Several illustrations and head and tail pieces. Clean throughout text. BAL 21904 Printing 1 and Binding A. 129pp.. First Edition. Green Cloth. Light edge and Corner Wear/No Jacket. Small Octavo.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Glenn Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 013906
- Title
- THE PENNSYLVANIA PILGRIM AND OTHER POEMS
- Author
- WHITTIER, JOHN GREENLEAF
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Light edge and Corner Wear
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- James R. Osgood and Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1872
- Size
- Small Octavo
- Keywords
- Poetry, American Poetry
Terms of Sale
Glenn Books
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About the Seller
Glenn Books
Biblio member since 2005
Prairie Village, Kansas
About Glenn Books
We are an antiquarian bookshop established in 1933. We are members of ABAA and ILAB.
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- Jacket
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- BAL
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- 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...
- Edges
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- Spine
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Cloth
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- 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...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.