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Shandy M'Guire
by Paul Peppergrass
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
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Warwick, New York, United States
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About This Item
Dunigan, New York, 1848. First Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. PAUL PEPPERGRASS (pseudonym). Shandy M'Guire, or, Tricks Upon Travellers, New York: Edward Dunigan, 1848. Octavo, first edition, pp. 354, frontis illustration, pebbled brown morocco boards half-bound in brown morocco, gilt lettering and rules to spine with five raised bands, gilt vine leaves on front and back, red sprinkles at edges, ownership signature penciled onto front flyleaf. Wright 1-347. The author, who was an Irish priest named John Boyce, had moved to New England from his home in Ireland. The present book is set in the north of Ireland. Scarce: Worldcat shows only one copy of this edition, at a university in Germany. Condition of this book: Light wear at corners and joints, light to moderate foxing throughout. Size: Octavo (standard book size). Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Antiquarian & Rare; Ireland; 19th century; Literature & Literary. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 55485. .
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- Bookseller
- Rarities etc.
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 55485
- Title
- Shandy M'Guire
- Author
- Paul Peppergrass
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover (Full Leather)
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Condition
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Dunigan
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1848
- Keywords
- BZDB17 Antiquarian & Rare; Ireland; 19th century; Literature & Literary. Unbranded Paul Peppergrass Shandy M'Guire
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Biblio member since 2007
Warwick, New York
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Raised Band(s)
- Raised bands refer to the ridges that protrude slightly from the spine on leather bound books. The bands are created in the...
- Worldcat
- Worldcat is a collaborative effort produced by OCLC (Online Computer Library Center) and supported and used by 72,000 libraries...
- 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...
- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- 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...
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Pebbled
- Pebbled cloth or leather describes the covering of a hardcover book with a decorative texture of repeated small raised bumps,...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
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