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Three Books of Song
by Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good minus/No DJ
- Seller
-
Southampton, Massachusetts, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1872. Edition Not Specified. Good minus/No DJ. 12mo = 7-9". n/a. Printing Not Spec. Maroon cloth over hard covers with gilt lettering and decoration. Damp stain on front cover, top/bottom spine edges bumped, corners bumped and worn, front hinge cracked. Pages clean with a tiny bit of foxing here and there, previous owner's name written in pen on front free endpaper, dated 1872.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Heritage Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- F22559
- Title
- Three Books of Song
- Author
- Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
- Illustrator
- n/a
- Book Condition
- Used - Good minus
- Jacket Condition
- No DJ
- Edition
- Edition Not Specified
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- James R. Osgood and Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1872
- Pages
- 204pp
- Size
- 12mo = 7-9"
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- romantic era
- Bookseller catalogs
- Poetry;
Terms of Sale
Heritage Books
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives not as described or damaged.
About the Seller
Heritage Books
Biblio member since 2008
Southampton, Massachusetts
About Heritage Books
Our bookshop is located in the historic town library building of Southampton, Massachusetts. Southampton lies within the Pioneer Valley of Western Massachusetts with a view of Pomeroy Mountain to the West and Mt. Tom to the North. It is situated between the artistic, vibrant communities of Easthampton and Northampton and the city of Westfield. We have a collection of over 40,000 books with many more waiting to be unboxed and squeezed onto our shelves. The large double-door front entrance will lead you to our main floor where we hold a wide range of fiction and non-fiction titles, as well as a good selection of scarce and rare editions. The original fireplace is surrounded by hardbacks and you can peer out the original nine-foot windows. Take the staircase to the basement and you will find our large children's section and many shelves full of paperbacks. Our physical address is 225 College Highway/Route 10. Our mailing address is 241 College Highway & Clark St. P.O. Box 100 Southampton, MA 01073. The store hours indicated are by appointment only Monday through Friday, and Saturday and Sunday you can stop in. Please call to schedule an appointment if you can't make it to the store on the weekends from 11 am to 3 pm.
Glossary
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- 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....
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
- 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...
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