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British Poets - The Poetical Works of James Thomson
by James Thomson
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/No DJ
- Seller
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Brattleboro, Vermont, United States
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About This Item
British Poets - The Poetical Works of James Thomson. Published by Houghton Osgood, 1878. Riverside Edition. Very Good HC, no DJ. Two volumes in one. Dark maroon cloth over boards with gilt stamped titles; top edge gilt; light brown end papers; tissue-guarded frontispiece; ribbon marker. Clean, square covers and spine; very slightly rubbed at spine ends; tightly bound; very clean interior (many leaves unopened at fore edges); slight age darkening at page edges - leaves remain supple. Includes memoir by Harris Nicolas (158 pp). 12mo, 726 pp (paged 266 & 302 pp).
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Details
- Bookseller
- Madden Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 6481
- Title
- British Poets - The Poetical Works of James Thomson
- Author
- James Thomson
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No DJ
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Houghton, Osgood and Company. Boston
- Date Published
- 1878
- Keywords
- LITERATURE, BRITAIN, POETRY, THOMSON, POETS, VERSE, POEMS, POETRY
- Bookseller catalogs
- Poetry;
Terms of Sale
Madden Books
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Madden Books
Biblio member since 2011
Brattleboro, Vermont
About Madden Books
I am a book collector and seller with many years experience. My particular areas of interest are politics, history, law, economics, labor and sociology. I also collect and sell Vermont and New England books, pamphlets, ephemera and magazines. I have a large selection of mysteries and detective books. I have general stock of literature, sciences, arts, world and regional politics & history.
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- Unopened
- A state in which all or some of the pages of a book have not been separated from the adjacent pages, caused by a traditional...
- Spine
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- Cloth
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- Edges
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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...
- 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...
- 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...
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