Brook Farm: Historic and Personal Memoirs
by Codman, John Thomas
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Portland, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Arena Publishing Company, 1894. Hardcover. Very Good. 335pp; Maroon cloth boards with gilt lettering to frint & spine, bookplate to front pastedown, previous owner's name to FFEP, slight wear to spine ends & corners of boards, text unmarked, binding is tight, VG condition. Insider's account of American utopian community Brook Farm.
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- Bookseller
- Book Happy Booksellers
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 002152
- Title
- Brook Farm: Historic and Personal Memoirs
- Author
- Codman, John Thomas
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Publisher
- Arena Publishing Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1894
- Keywords
- religion utopia communes sects history memoir
- Bookseller catalogs
- Religion;
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Glossary
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- 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...
- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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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