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DARKNESS AND DAYLIGHT: or Lights and Shadows of New York Life, A Woman's Narrative of mission and rescue work ...
by Campbell, Helen f1a
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- FINE book. 1st ed. FLAWLESS book but for rubbed extrems.
- Seller
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Lyndonville, New York, United States
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About This Item
Hartford, CT: Worthington. FINE book. 1st ed. FLAWLESS book but for rubbed extrems.. 1890. 1st edition.. Hardcover. FINE book. AS NEW inside. Both boards decorated in blind with gilt lettered and decorated spine & front cover. 9"x6", 740pp. . AS NEW inside; including all three text block edges, pastedowns, text and engravings. ALSO, the book stays firmly closed when stood on its spine. A truly remarkable copy. A second part by the journalist Thomas W. Knox on "Life in the Great Metrololis". A third by the chief of NY detectives, Thomas Byrnes, "Criminal Life and Detective Experiences in the Great Metropolis". Book's spine & tp say 250 illustrations but the list of illustrations numbers 251. There are 15 full page illustrations. Campbell, Knox & Byrnes have tissue guarded full page engraved portraits preceding their parts. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Quiet Friends
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001245
- Title
- DARKNESS AND DAYLIGHT: or Lights and Shadows of New York Life, A Woman's Narrative of mission and rescue work ...
- Author
- Campbell, Helen f1a
- Illustrator
- 250 engravings fron photos.
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - FINE book. 1st ed. FLAWLESS book but for rubbed extrems.
- Edition
- 1st edition.
- Publisher
- Worthington
- Place of Publication
- Hartford, CT
- Date Published
- 1890
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- FINE book. AS NEW inside. Both boards decorated in blind with gilt, lettered and decorated spine & front cover. 9"x6", 740pp.
Terms of Sale
Quiet Friends
Visa, M/C, MO, Check. Shipping is free for a "regular" weight book. But for heavier books, and multi volume sets, we ask for any additional postage. Basically we pay the first $3.
About the Seller
Quiet Friends
Biblio member since 2008
Lyndonville, New York
About Quiet Friends
We sell about 75% internet, 25% book fairs. We have been in business since the early 90's. We pack extremely well. We describe very conservatively and have only a few returns in the 5000 orders we have mailed.
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- Fine
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- New
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- 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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