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City Ballads
by Will Carleton
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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WINFIELD, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
New York, NY: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1885 Harper & Brothers, Publishers, New York. 1885. Hardcover. First Edition. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Very Good' light wear at head, tail, tips, and board bottoms; wear through fabric at tips. No DJ. Green cloth boards and spine with bright gilt lettering on the spine with gilt decorations; gilt title with black and gilt drawings on front board. Beveled board edges; brown endpapers; clean internals, interior hinges are not split or broken. Frontispiece picture of town with tissue guard. 180 pp 8vo. This book was written at a time when rural (country) people were beginning to leave the country environment for the cities. When city people go to the country, they drink in the scenery more than life-long residents do. When country people come to the city their impressions are deeper than the city dwellers. This book is and effort to reproduce some of the effects of city scenes and character upon the intellect and imagination of two people from the country. Through poems, prose poems, and drawings, these feelings are expressed as are the glad tidings to finally be coming back home. C clean very presentable copy.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 011492
- Title
- City Ballads
- Author
- Will Carleton
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Harper & Brothers, Publishers
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 1885
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- City Ballads, poetry, ballads, prose poetry, Will Carleton, cities, towns, country villages, major cities, vice virtue, sites, statues, Midwest farm life
- Bookseller catalogs
- Americana;
Terms of Sale
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or in the unfortunate event, damaged. All books are packed and wrapped with care to avoid shifting during shipment and edge/tip strikes during the mailing process.
About the Seller
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Biblio member since 2018
WINFIELD, Kansas
About Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Walnut Valley Books is a small independent home-based business with the bulk of my holdings being of an American military nature covering everything from the Revolutionary War to the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. I also have holdings of books on the Middle East, the southwestern United States (New Mexico especially, Kansas related titles, Oklahoma related titles, and other regionally specialized books. All of my holdings are hand-selected to be good quality books of interest to the reader, historian, or the collector. In addition to the above, you will also find a wide range of other topics such as Medical, US History, autobiographical, biographical, sports, women's studies, and many other eclectic topics.
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- First Edition
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- Tight
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- Beveled
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- Cloth
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- 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....
- Gilt
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