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Mercedes, and Later Lyrics
by Aldrich, Thomas Bailey
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Lansdowne, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Co, 1884. Hardcover. Very Good. 111 p.; 21 cm. Plain grey cloth with small printed spine label. Top page edges gilt. Printed at the Riverside Press by H.O. Houghton & Co. BAL 325. Inscribed on front free endpaper: "Miss Bayard. Boston, 1886." With: calling card of Dr. Clarence J. Blake. This was evidently a present to Miss Bayard of Boston from Dr. Clarence J. Blake (1843-1919), professor of otology at Harvard Medical School, who worked with Alexander Graham Bell to develop the ear phoautograph, a tool to transcribe speech sounds to help the deaf perfect their speech. In Very Good Condition: ends of spine slightly frayed; spine label rubbed and faded; cloth is lightly soiled; pages are clean and crisp.
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- Bookseller
- Classic Books and Ephemera
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 003777
- Title
- Mercedes, and Later Lyrics
- Author
- Aldrich, Thomas Bailey
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Houghton, Mifflin and Co
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1884
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- Poetry;
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- Gilt
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- Inscribed
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- Crisp
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- Edges
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