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The Complete Writings of John Greenleaf Whittier
by Whittier, John Greenleaf
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine with no dust jacket
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Baltimore, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
Houghton and Mifflin. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1892. First Edition. Hardcover. Professionally and solidly rebound in half brown leather, brown marbled boards and endpapers, gilt top edges and spine titles and compartments, slightly raised bands. No binder label present. Seven volumes, complete. All 1892 except Vol. 4 (1894). Vols. 1-4: The Poetical Works (Narrative and Legendary Poems; Poems of Nature, Religious Poems, Etc.; Anti-Slavery Poems, Songs of Labor and Reform; Personal Poems, The Tent on the Beach, Etc.). Vol. 5-7: The Prose Works (Margaret Smith's Journal, Tales and Sketches; Old Portraits and Modern Sketches, Historical Papers, Etc.; The Conflict with Slavery, Reform and Politics, The Inner Life, Etc.). Light spine fading, edge foxing, light overall rubbing, else Near Fine. A pretty set. International shipping billed at cost. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall .
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- Bookseller
- Boards and Wraps
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 82487
- Title
- The Complete Writings of John Greenleaf Whittier
- Author
- Whittier, John Greenleaf
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine with no dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Houghton and Mifflin
- Date Published
- 1892
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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- First Edition
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- Fine
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- Spine
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- Gilt
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- Rubbing
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- Jacket
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- Rebound
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- Edges
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