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Strangers and Wayfarers
by Jewett, Sarah Orne
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- Seller
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Arrowsic, Maine, United States
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About This Item
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company; Cambridge: The Riverside Press, 1890. Hardcover. 12mo (7 x 4.75"), half green leather, decorative white cloth. [7], [1]-279 pp., laid in bifold publisher ad. Previous ownership inscription in pencil on ffep. CONDITION: Good, soiling at covers, dampstain along edges of text-block. First edition. Cover design by Sarah Whitman. REFERENCE: BAL 10898.
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- Bookseller
- James Arsenault & Company
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 6983
- Title
- Strangers and Wayfarers
- Author
- Jewett, Sarah Orne
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company; Cambridge: The Riverside Press, 1890
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
James Arsenault & Company
Biblio member since 2021
Arrowsic, Maine
About James Arsenault & Company
James Arsenault & Company was established in 1988. Our stock consists of Americana, literature, fine press, early photography, plate books, trade catalogs, autographs & manuscripts, ephemera, maps, and historical prints, as well as fine and rare books and pamphlets in a variety of fields. We are members in good standing of the ABAA and ILAB, and have exhibited for many years at numerous rare book fairs in both the northeast and in California. We do not have an open shop, but welcome your inquiries regarding items in our stock possibly of interest to you.
Glossary
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- 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...
- BAL
- Bibliography of American Literature (commonly abbreviated as BAL in descriptions) is the quintessential reference work for any...
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- 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...
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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