MAURINE / AND OTHER POEMS
by Wilcox, Ella Wheeler
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
-
Cadyville, New York, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Chicago, IL: W. B. Conkey Company, (1888).. (1888).. Good. - Small octavo, cream cloth titled in gilt with decorations in gilt on the front cover & spine. The top edge is gilt. The binding is rubbed, bumped, soiled & foxed. 254 pages. Illustrated with a black-and-white portrait frontispiece. There is an owner's ink name with the date 1899 on the front endpaper & there is occasional light foxing. Good. <p>First edition.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd. (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 13401
- Title
- MAURINE / AND OTHER POEMS
- Author
- Wilcox, Ella Wheeler
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Chicago, IL: W. B. Conkey Company, (1888).
- Date Published
- (1888).
- Keywords
- LITERATURE; POETRY; POEMS; POET; WOMAN POET; ELLA WHEELER WILCOX; MAURINE AND OTHER POEMS; NINETEENTH CENTURY; 19TH CENTURY; FIRST EDITION; 1ST EDITION.
Terms of Sale
Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd.
Payment with order from individuals. Items are offered subject to prior sale. All purchases are subject to your approval, returnable within 10 days. New York State residents please add sales tax to your purchases. All items are guaranteed authentic and as described.
About the Seller
Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd.
Biblio member since 2003
Cadyville, New York
About Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd.
Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd. (incorporated 1989) is a general antiquarian book store which buys and sells collections and individual items of significance. Booksellers Ric Zank and Daniel Meunier each bring to the business over 18 years of experience in seeking out and offering for sale unusual, uncommon and rare books, autographs, and ephemera in all fields. Our office is open 7 days a week from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and frequently later. An answering machine will take your message after hours and when we are out of the office.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- 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....