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Castilian Days; With Illustrations by Joseph Pennell
by Hay, John
- Used
- near fine
- first
- Condition
- Near fine
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About This Item
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1903. Pennell Edition. Leather bound. Near fine. The "Pennell Edition" of Castilian Days by John Hay. Octavo, xi, 343pp. Rebound in modern green morocco, raised bands and decorative compartments on spine. Top edge gilt. Stated "Published November 1903" on copyright page. This first trade edition, also known as the "Holiday Edition," first appeared in 1871, published by the James R. Osgood and Company of Boston. (BAL 7793b) Previous ownership bookplate affixed to front endpaper. John Hay would serve as the private secretary to President Lincoln until 1865. Along with John Nicolay, Hay would author a 10-Volume biography of President Lincoln called Abraham Lincoln: A History. During the McKinley Administration, Hay returned to government as the United States ambassador to the United Kingdom, and later the twelfth secretary of state.
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- Bookseller
- The First Edition Rare Books, LLC
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2551
- Title
- Castilian Days; With Illustrations by Joseph Pennell
- Author
- Hay, John
- Format/Binding
- Leather bound
- Book Condition
- Used - Near fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Pennell Edition
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1903
- Keywords
- Abraham Lincoln: A History Hay Nicolay, All the great prizes Hay, The Education of Henry Adams, The Bread-Winners: A Social Study, The Bread Winners Hay, President Abraham Lincoln, 16th President, Hodgenville, KY, White House, American Civil War, The
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- Morocco
- Morocco is a style of leather book binding that is usually made with goatskin, as it is durable and easy to dye. (see also...
- 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...
- 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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- Bookplate
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- Rebound
- A book in which the pages have been bound into a covering replacing the original covering issued by the publisher.
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Raised Band(s)
- Raised bands refer to the ridges that protrude slightly from the spine on leather bound books. The bands are created in the...
- Fine
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