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Daughters of America; or, Women of the Century
by Hanaford, Phebe A
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair
- Seller
-
East Granby, Connecticut, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Augusta, Maine: True and Company, 1885. Undated, ca. 1885. Attractively bound, Victorian binding in brown cloth lettered and decorated in gilt and black, tissue protected frontis engraving of the author, other engravings. Fair to good condition, covers rubbed and lightly frayed at the extremities, minor spotting, spine a bit faded, good hinges, sound text block, frontis portrait foxed, 65pages uniformly age-tanned but clean, gift notation on front free endpaper, personal library bookplate inside front cover, no other markings. Contains illustrated sketches of important women in American history, including: Women of the Revolution; The Wives of the Presidents; Women Leaders in Society; Philanthropic Women; Women During the Civil War; Literary Women; Women Poets; Women Scientists; Women Artists; Women Lecturers; Women Reformers; Women Preachers; Women Missionaries; Women Educators; Women Physicans; Women as Readers, Actors and Singers; Wome in Business; Women of Faith; Women Inventors; Women Lawyers; Women Journalists; Women Printers; Women Librarians; Women Agriculturists; Women Historians; Women Travellers. . Hard Cover. Fair. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Resource Books, LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 047439
- Title
- Daughters of America; or, Women of the Century
- Author
- Hanaford, Phebe A
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Publisher
- True and Company
- Place of Publication
- Augusta, Maine
- Date Published
- 1885
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Keywords
- AMERICAN WOMEN HISTORY BIOGRAPHY WOMENS STUDIES
- Bookseller catalogs
- American History and Biography;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Resource Books, LLC
Biblio member since 2004
East Granby, Connecticut
About Resource Books, LLC
Resource Books, LLC deals in antiquarian and out-of-print books in a wide variety of subject matter, mainly non-fiction.
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- Text Block
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- Bookplate
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- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- 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...
- 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....
- Cloth
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