Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1884. Book. Very Good. Silk. Second Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Faded red silk binding, gold titles. American Men of Letters Series edited by Charles Dudley Warner. Top edge gilt. Coated grey endpapers. Antique library bookplate, hand-numbered and hand-dated. Frontispiece engraving, facsimile signature, protective tissue. 323 pp., 4 pp advertising. America's first true feminist, Margaret Fuller holds a distinctive place in the cultural life of the American Renaissance. Transcendentalist, literary critic, editor, journalist, teacher, and political activist, ultimately turned revolutionary, she numbered among her close friends the intellectual prime movers of the day: Emerson, Thoreau, the Peabody sisters, the Alcotts, Horace Greeley, Carlyle, and Mazzini--all of whom regarded her with admiration and sometimes even awe. Spine sunned, boards rubbed and slightly skewed. Very good condition. Scarce..

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Bookseller: Rose's Books, IOBA (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 005275
Title: MARGARET OSSOLL (Margaret Fuller marchesa Ossolli)
Author: Higginson, Thomas Wentworth
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good
Edition: Second Edition
Publisher: Houghton, Mifflin
Place of Publication: Boston
Date Published: 1884
Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7&
Keywords: MARGARET FULLER EARLY AMERICAN FEMINIST

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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...
Bookplate: Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
Sunned: Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
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....
12mo: A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
Facsimile: An exact copy of an original work. In books, it refers to a copy or reproduction, as accurate as possible, of an original...