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Mosses From an Old Manse (Two Volumes
by Hawthorne, Nathaniel
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Topeka, Kansas, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Boston: Ticknor and Fields. Good with no dust jacket. 1854. Second Edition. Hardcover. First printing of the second (New) edition; Blind stamped cloth covers, with gilt stamped lettering on spine; Covers show a little chipping at spine ends and light rubbing along edges, though remains clean and with fairly bright lettering; Institutional stamps on blank front end leaves of both volumes, and inked name on verso of blank front free end page of volume I; One signature near center of volume I is slightly loosened; A little foxing on first and last few leaves of each volume, though a little heavier in Volume II; There are a couple of penciled notes in margins, though both volume remains generally clean, tight, and otherwise intact. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Oddfellow's Fine Books and Col
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 343
- Title
- Mosses From an Old Manse (Two Volumes
- Author
- Hawthorne, Nathaniel
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good with no dust jacket
- Edition
- Second Edition
- Publisher
- Ticknor and Fields
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1854
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
Terms of Sale
Oddfellow's Fine Books and Col
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About the Seller
Oddfellow's Fine Books and Col
Biblio member since 2014
Topeka, Kansas
About Oddfellow's Fine Books and Col
We sell antiquarian and gently used books specializing in all things Kansas. We also offer a large selection of books for children, vintage young adult & series books; Agriculture; Psychology; Militaria and Western Americana.
Glossary
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- 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...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- 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...
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