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Aspromonte and other poems 1st Edition 1869
by King, Harriet
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good-Very Good in worn boards/no dustwrapper
- Seller
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Camira, Queensland, Australia
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About This Item
London: Macmillan and Co, 1869. 1st Edition. hardbound. Good-Very Good in worn boards/no dustwrapper. 12mo. Scarce 1st Edition of Harriet King's first book, the poems herein written between the ages of eighteen and twenty-two; green cloth boards with gilt titling to spine, gilt devices to spine and front board; some wear to gutter of front pastedown and free endpaper, foxing to prelims, occasional foxing in text, o.w. G-VG throughout; boards with medium-heavy wear around edges, spine dulled.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Gotcha By The Books
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 21827
- Title
- Aspromonte and other poems 1st Edition 1869
- Author
- King, Harriet
- Format/Binding
- Hardbound
- Book Condition
- Used - Good-Very Good in worn boards
- Jacket Condition
- no dustwrapper
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Macmillan and Co
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1869
- Pages
- 166pp
- Size
- 12mo
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Antiquarian and Rare Books;
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About the Seller
Gotcha By The Books
Biblio member since 2017
Camira, Queensland
About Gotcha By The Books
Gotcha By The Books is an online bookshop, working from home, in Camira, Queensland, Australia. The owner has been selling books in Brisbane since 1985, and Gotcha By The Books has been online since 2001. We specialize in Poetry, Australian Poetry, Literature, Art, Australiana, Aboriginal Australia, Rare and Antiquarian Books. We buy books on any subject (so long as we know we can re-sell them!). We are open by appointment.
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- Edges
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- Gutter
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- Cloth
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- 12mo
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- Dustwrapper
- Also known as book jacket, dust cover, or dust wrapper, a dust jacket is a protective and decorative cover for a book that is...
- 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...
- 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....
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