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THE HANGING OF THE CRANE
by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Brighton, East Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
LONDON : GOERGE ROUTLEDGE AND SONS , 1875 Original Victorian Decorative dark brown cloth on bevel edged boards with gilt and black blocked titles to spine and front, 215 x 175 mm approx.All edges of book block gilt, x + 64 pp. Steel engraved frontis + 41 others by Mary A Hallock and Thomas Moran all as called for + numerous unspecified emblematical and ornamental vignettes by John J Harley. 1875 . The Crane in question being an iron implement used in inglenook open fires for cooking. Please see our images of the actual book offered for sale for further details and condition. Very Good (Book- heavy shelf rubbing to extreme corner tips of boards else colour rubbing only to extremities and apart from one liquid splash mark to top margin of front panel no notable soiling.Hint of foxing to reverse of free end papers and half title, remainder of book block clean with no previous owner name or insc. and binding sound with no cracks to end papers).
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- Bookseller
- booksonlinebrighton
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 131228
- Title
- THE HANGING OF THE CRANE
- Author
- HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW
- Illustrator
- MARY A HALLOCK, THOMAS MORAN, JOHN J. HARLEY
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- GOERGE ROUTLEDGE AND SONS
- Place of Publication
- LONDON
- Date Published
- 1875
- Keywords
- Henry Wordsworth Longfellow, The Hanging of the crane, Poetry, Victorian Decorative Cloth, Mary A Hallock and Thomas Moran Illustrated.
Terms of Sale
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