AT SUNDOWN.
by WHITTIER, John Greenleaf
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
-
ELLSWORTH, Maine, United States
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About This Item
Publisher's cream-colored buckram-style cloth with elaborate upper board gilt lettering and decorative device within double-ruled gilt border, 12mo, pp. 70. Tissue-guarded frontis of the author and 8 additional illustrations by E. H. Garrett inserted. Note that the List of Illustrations calls for the final illustration to be inserted at page 64 but it is at page 68. Top edge gilt. Leaves printed on rectos only. GOOD condition with shelf soiling on front and rear boards that shows more readily than if publisher had chosen a darker color. This copy with a nice sentimental gift inscription from one sister to another in the year of publication.
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- Bookseller
- T. BRENNAN BOOKSELLER, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 002333
- Title
- AT SUNDOWN.
- Author
- WHITTIER, John Greenleaf
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Cambridge, MA: The Riverside Press, 1892.
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Poetry; Massachusetts; New Hampshire;
Terms of Sale
T. BRENNAN BOOKSELLER, ABAA
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About the Seller
T. BRENNAN BOOKSELLER, ABAA
Biblio member since 2013
ELLSWORTH, Maine
About T. BRENNAN BOOKSELLER, ABAA
Thomas Brennan was established professionally as a Bookseller in 1998 and still exhibits annually at several antiquarian book fairs. He has 25 years full-time experience in the Book Trade and is a member in good standing of The International League of Antiquarian Booksellers (ILAB); The Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America (ABAA); The Ephemera Society of America; and The Manuscript Society.
Glossary
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- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- 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...
- Device
- Especially for older books, a printer's device refers to an identifying mark, also sometimes called a printer's mark, on the...
- 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...