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SILVER PITCHERS: and INDEPENDENCE, A Centennial Love Story
by Alcott, Louisa M
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good +
- Seller
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Rougemont, North Carolina, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1876. First edition. Hardcover. Good +. small octavo, brown cloth with black decoration & gilt on spine, 1st ed.(1876), 307 pages + ads. Spine cocked & worn at ends, corners bumped & lightly worn, textblock edges darkened, small bookplate on front endpaper & old Paul Elder & Co. sticker on rear blank.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Frey Fine Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- CE227035
- Title
- SILVER PITCHERS: and INDEPENDENCE, A Centennial Love Story
- Author
- Alcott, Louisa M
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good +
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Roberts Brothers
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1876
- Keywords
- CHILDREN'S
Terms of Sale
Frey Fine Books
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Frey Fine Books
Biblio member since 2019
Rougemont, North Carolina
About Frey Fine Books
Antiquarian bookseller, with over 15 years experience.
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- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- 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...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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....
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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
- 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...
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