The Complete Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes. Cambridge Edition
by Holmes, Oliver Wendell
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- Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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East Granby, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Riverside Press: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1895. Published 1895. Attractively bound Cambridge Edition. Three quarter tan smooth leather over marbled boards, dual spine labels, gilt spine lettering and decoration, top edge gilt, just under 8.5 inches tall. Some spotting to leather corners, edge rubbing, surface split to top of front joint (cover well attached), front free endpaper removed, text block sound, pages, clean, name and gift notation on first two preliminary blanks, no other markings.. Hard Cover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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- Bookseller
- Resource Books, LLC (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 044508
- Title
- The Complete Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes. Cambridge Edition
- Author
- Holmes, Oliver Wendell
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Publisher
- The Riverside Press: Houghton, Mifflin and Company
- Place of Publication
- Cambridge, Massachusetts
- Date Published
- 1895
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Keywords
- CLASSIC LATE NINETEENTH CENTURY POETRY HOLMES SUPREME COURT JUSTICES LITERARY FRATERNITY LINES
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction, Literature, Poetry, Literary History;
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Resource Books, LLC
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East Granby, Connecticut
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- Marbled boards
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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....
- 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...
- 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...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....