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WOLFERT'S ROOST AND OTHER PAPERS
by Washington Irving
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
-
Brattleboro, Vermont, United States
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About This Item
First US edition, second printing with 12 Park Place address and the frontispiece and vignette title page inserted rather than pasted on to the stub of an excised leaf as it is in the first printing. 12mo in cloth. Frontispiece and vignette title page. 383 pp. plus 12 pp. publisher's catalog dated Feb. 1855. VG. Very light wear. Gilt titling darkened on spine. Binding is strong; text block is tight. Previous owner's name neatly written in pencil on the title page, otherwise pristine interior. A nice copy. Ships wrapped in bubble wrap and packed securely in a box.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Lost Time
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 082321-16
- Title
- WOLFERT'S ROOST AND OTHER PAPERS
- Author
- Washington Irving
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- New York: G. P. Putnam & Co.
- Date Published
- 1855
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
Terms of Sale
Lost Time
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About the Seller
Lost Time
Biblio member since 2020
Brattleboro, Vermont
About Lost Time
Lost Time is an independent online bookstore located in Brattleboro, Vermont.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
- 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....
- Vignette
- A decorative design or illustration placed at the beginning or end of a ...
- 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...
- 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...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
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