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Handy Andy, A Tale of Irish Life
by Lover, Samuel
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/No Jacket
- Seller
-
Chico, California, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York/Philadelphia: D. Appleton & Company & George S Appleton, 1843. This is a Near Fine copy of the First American Edition, in a quality rebind. Light orange cloth boards with tips and spine of reddidh-brown leather. Five raised bands with gilt titling and decorations on the spine. Clean text; 380 pages, with a 24-page catalog in the rear. Top edge is gilt. Illustrations by Samuel Lover. Textblock has some stains and spots but remains perfectly readable. New endpapers; with a small bookseller label [McDevitt-Wilson's Books] on the rear paste-down. Contemporary (1844) signature from a previous-owner on an original endpaper. Tipped-in is an Autograph Letter SIGNED by Samuel Lover. Light rubbing to the margins; else a Fine copy. In an archival plastic protector.. Signed by Author. First American Edition.. Quarter-Bound. Near Fine/No Jacket. Illus. by Samuel Lover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Quercus Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 006558
- Title
- Handy Andy, A Tale of Irish Life
- Author
- Lover, Samuel
- Illustrator
- Samuel Lover
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First American Edition.
- Publisher
- D. Appleton & Company & George S Appleton
- Place of Publication
- New York/Philadelphia
- Date Published
- 1843
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Bookseller catalogs
- Irish Literature;
Terms of Sale
Quercus Rare Books
We accept checks and money orders in US Dollars. Credit card orders are accepted through Biblio. California residents add appropriate sales tax. Items are returnable for any reason within ten days of receipt (please email or call first before returning item).
About the Seller
Quercus Rare Books
Biblio member since 2006
Chico, California
About Quercus Rare Books
Quercus Books seeks out and provides to the discriminating Reader or Collector noteworthy books in the First Edition. Our particular focus is on Modern Literature (roughly from the Second World War to the present) and Irish Authors. We also retain a small stock of non-fiction titles, mostly in the fields of American Western History, American Indians, and the American Civil War. Member of IOBA - the Independent Online Booksellers Association.
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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...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Raised Band(s)
- Raised bands refer to the ridges that protrude slightly from the spine on leather bound books. The bands are created in the...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- 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....
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