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A KENTUCKY CARDINAL and AFTERMATH. NEW EDITION REVISED WITH A NEW PREFACE.
by Allen, James Lane
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
-
Oakville, Ontario, Canada
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Macmillan, 1900. 276 pp + (4 pp) publisher's advertisements, 8 1/4" H. Green cloth with elaborate gilt decoration and lettering on spine and front board, top edge gilt. B&w illustrations (all present). Set in 1850s Kentucky, this is a tale of romance and tragedy, following the wooing, engagement, wedding and family life of nature lover, Adam Moss, and his society-loving neighbor, Georgianna. A slight separation between several page gatherings but still holding firmly in binding, paper is split on inside rear hinge - holding firmly, slight toning in margins of pages, light to moderate browning to fore-edge and bottom of text block, light edge wear to boards, light wrinkling at top/bottom of spine - tiny tear at bottom, green colour has faded to brown on spine and some edges of boards, spine has various small areas of colour fading which effects some of the lettering and decoration. Book is protected in a stiff clear mylar jacket.. Revised Edition.. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Hugh Thomson..
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Details
- Bookseller
- Capricorn Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 30587
- Title
- A KENTUCKY CARDINAL and AFTERMATH. NEW EDITION REVISED WITH A NEW PREFACE.
- Author
- Allen, James Lane
- Illustrator
- Hugh Thomson.
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- Revised Edition.
- Publisher
- Macmillan
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1900
- Keywords
- James Allen Lane, Kentucky Authors, Kentucky Novelists, Kentucky, 19th Century American Authors, American Literature, Illustrated Books, Hugh Thomson, Adam Moss, Romance, Birds, Georgianna, Love, Cardinals, Tragedy, Engagements Wooing, Weddings, Happiness
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature; Art - Book Illustration/Illustrators;
Terms of Sale
Capricorn Books
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About the Seller
Capricorn Books
Biblio member since 2003
Oakville, Ontario
About Capricorn Books
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- Cloth
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- Spine
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- 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....
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Gatherings
- A term used in bookbinding, where a gathering of sheets is folded at the middle, then bound into the binding together. The...
- Top Edge Gilt
- Top edge gilt refers to the practice of applying gold or a gold-like finish to the top of the text block (the edges the pages...
- Edges
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