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The Life of Alice Freeman Palmer.
by PALMER, George Herbert
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
-
ELLSWORTH, Maine, United States
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About This Item
Dark cloth with spine and upper board lettering gilt, octavo, pp. 354 plus publisher colophon. Top edge gilt. Previous owner gift inscription on free front endpaper. Previous owner has also affixed a small photo of a "Professor Palmer" to an early blank page. Ten leaves of illustrations, some tissue-guarded. Illustrations without tissue guards have tanned in the margins but not on the illustrations themselves. Laid in is an old newspaper clipping about a memorial to Mrs. Palmer in the Wellesley college chapel. Board tips and spine ends are rubbed and foot of spine has a couple of nicks. The odd shelf scuff on the boards, as well. Withal, GOOD and sound.
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- Bookseller
- T. BRENNAN BOOKSELLER, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 002167
- Title
- The Life of Alice Freeman Palmer.
- Author
- PALMER, George Herbert
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1908.
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Women's Studies; Massachusetts;
Terms of Sale
T. BRENNAN BOOKSELLER, ABAA
14 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 14 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed.
About the Seller
T. BRENNAN BOOKSELLER, ABAA
Biblio member since 2013
ELLSWORTH, Maine
About T. BRENNAN BOOKSELLER, ABAA
Thomas Brennan was established professionally as a Bookseller in 1998 and still exhibits annually at several antiquarian book fairs. He has 25 years full-time experience in the Book Trade and is a member in good standing of The International League of Antiquarian Booksellers (ILAB); The Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America (ABAA); The Ephemera Society of America; and The Manuscript Society.
Glossary
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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....
- Colophon
- The colophon contains information about a book's publisher, the typesetting, printer, and possibly even includes a printer's...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
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