AMERICAN LITERARY ANNUALS & GIFT BOOKS 1825 - 1865
by Thompson, Ralph
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very good
- Seller
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Cadyville, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: The H. W. Wilson Company, 1936.. 1936.. Very good. - Octavo, navy blue cloth titled in gilt. The binding is lightly rubbed with some light spotting & 2 white score marks to the rear cover. [viii] & 183 pages. The endpapers are lightly foxed & darkened around the edges. There are some neat red underlinings in the catalog section & an additional typed entry has been glued to one page. There is occasional light soiling. Very good. <p>First edition.
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- Bookseller
- Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd. (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 4703
- Title
- AMERICAN LITERARY ANNUALS & GIFT BOOKS 1825 - 1865
- Author
- Thompson, Ralph
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- New York: The H. W. Wilson Company, 1936.
- Date Published
- 1936.
- Keywords
- BOOKS-ON-BOOKS; REFERENCE; GIFT BOOKS; LITERARY ANNUALS; AMERICAN; CATALOG; PUBLISHERS; NINETEENTH CENTURY; 19TH CENTURY; RALPH THOMPSON; FIRST EDITION; 1ST EDITION.
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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.
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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...
- 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...
- 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...