The Flowering Of New England
by Brooks, Van Wyck
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- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
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- Seller
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Deep River, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
Boston: The Limited Editions Club, 1941. Limited Edition. Near fine in heavily embossed with oak leaves on dark green cloth covered boards with gilt text on the spine. A small quarto of 10 by 7 inches with the top edge of the text block stained a dark red. Without a dust jacket as issued, but the book is contained in a good+, black, paper covered slipcase with a paper label on its spine. One of only 1,500 copies numbered and signed by the illustrator. This copy is out of series as it lacks a number, but it is signed by Ray J. Holden and marked "Printer's Copy" at the lower margin of the limitation page. 468 pages including an index and illustrated throughout with drawings by R. J. Holden. Originally published in 1936 this title won the Pulitzer Prize in history in 1937. It is one of the few which has been continually republished since.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Town's End Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- TB32238
- Title
- The Flowering Of New England
- Author
- Brooks, Van Wyck
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- Limited Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- The Limited Editions Club
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1941
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Deep River, Connecticut
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- Quarto
- The term quarto is used to describe a page or book size. A printed sheet is made with four pages of text on each side, and the...
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- 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....
- Good+
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- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Cloth
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....
- 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...