A Book of New England Legends and Folk Lore in Prose and Poetry
by Samuel Adams Drake
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- VG- (Very Good Minus)/No Jacket
- Seller
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Buffalo, New York, United States
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About This Item
Boston, MA: Little, Brown & Company, 1910. Revised Edition . Hardcover. VG- (Very Good Minus)/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Light blue cloth with white lettering and gilt motif of woman with spinning wheel to front; gilt lettering to spine darkened and dulled; light toning; minor edgewear and lightly bumped spine ends. First couple dozen pages lightly shaken, binding otherwise sound. Text clean, interior lightly toned. B/w illustrations. No prev owner names, stickers or stamps. Not ex-library. 477 pp.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Albion Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 003312
- Title
- A Book of New England Legends and Folk Lore in Prose and Poetry
- Author
- Samuel Adams Drake
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG- (Very Good Minus)
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Revised Edition
- Publisher
- Little, Brown & Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston, MA
- Date Published
- 1910
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Weight
- 3.00 lbs
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Albion Books
Biblio member since 2021
Buffalo, New York
About Albion Books
Albion Books deals in fine used, out of print and rare books on a wide variety of topics. Specialties include Buffalo/New York history, science, religion, occult, and foreign language. The proprietor has been in the antiquarian book business since 2006.
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- Cloth
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- Shaken
- A hardcover in which the text block is loose, but still attached to the binding.
- 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
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- Jacket
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