THE JAMESTOWN PRINCESS: Pocahontas Legends
by Cole, Anna Cunningham
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Collectible-Good+/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
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Williamsburg, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
Norfolk, Virginia: Anna Cunningham Cole, 1907. 67 pages. Poems about Pocahontas the Native American princess of colonial Jamestown, Virginia. Frontispiece is a color portrait of Pocahontas, as imagined by the artist M. Louise Smith The book is clean and tight, with lightly toned pages foxing primarily in margins of first and last few pages; some small spots of staining in margins of a few pages;; a 1/2 inch on foreedge of front cover with cloth rubbed through to board; minor color rubbing on some edges.. The gilt title and decoration on the front cover remains quite bright.. First Edition. Hardcover. Collectible-Good+/No Dust Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Tennyson Williams, Books and Fine Art (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- W1551
- Title
- THE JAMESTOWN PRINCESS: Pocahontas Legends
- Author
- Cole, Anna Cunningham
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Collectible-Good+
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Anna Cunningham Cole
- Place of Publication
- Norfolk, Virginia
- Date Published
- 1907
- Bookseller catalogs
- Virginia; Poetry;
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Tennyson Williams, Books and Fine Art
Biblio member since 2004
Williamsburg, Virginia
About Tennyson Williams, Books and Fine Art
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- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- First Edition
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- Gilt
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- A.N.
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- Jacket
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- Cloth
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- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.