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Samantha Among the Brethren
by Holley, Marietta and Josiah Allen's Wife (writing as)
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fair/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
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Manlius, New York, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Hardcover Book. No dust jacket. Hinges splitting, binding shaken but secure and all pages intact. Red cloth covered boards. Front cover decoration in black and lettering in gilt well preserved. Spine rubbed. Contents clean. Presumed first edition with dates on title page and copyright pages matching, and no additional printing listed. Illustrated in numerous black and white drawings.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Limestone Village Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1214
- Title
- Samantha Among the Brethren
- Author
- Holley, Marietta and Josiah Allen's Wife (writing as)
- Illustrator
- Illustrations Uncredited
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Presumed First Edition
- Publisher
- Funk and Wagnalls
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1890
- Pages
- 437
- Size
- 21 cm
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Fiction; Humor; Temperance Movement: ; Victoriana; Women's Suffrage; Americana; Satire;
Terms of Sale
Limestone Village Books
Returns accepted for 15 days after receipt of book if book does not meet condition as stated in the description.
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Shaken
- A hardcover in which the text block is loose, but still attached to the binding.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- 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...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
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