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East and West Poems
by Bret Harte
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine Condition/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
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Warwick, New York, United States
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About This Item
Osgood, Boston, 1871. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Near Fine Condition/No Dust Jacket. HARTE, BRET. East and West Poems, Boston: James R. Osgood & Co., 1871. 12mo, first edition, pp. 171, green cloth boards with beveled edges and gilt lettering and Osgood colophon on spine, gilt Harte signature on front, label on free front endpaper identifying this as part of the Estelle Doheny Collection of American Literature. Doheny, wife of the oil baron played by Daniel Day Lewis in "There Will Be Blood," amassed a valuable collection that was dispersed in auctions after she died in 1988. Doheny acquired the book from Frederick W. Skiff, another voracious collector, based in Portland, Ore. His bookplate, an elaborate sporting pictorial, is on the front pastedown (see below). This plate was designed by W.F. Hopson and is a small gem of American graphic art. Frank Weitenkampf, in "American Graphic Art," called Hopson's bookplates "that combination of variety in treatment with dignity and restraint in expression which produces the happiest results in these marks of bibliophilic proprietorship" (p. 261, Macmillan 1924 revised edition). The bookplate is in its first state, with "West Haven" (Conn.) given as Skiff's residence, rather than the later "Portland." The Harte book is BAL 7256. Condition of this book: Near fine, bright, with some rubbing at the spine ends. Size: 12mo. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Antiquarian & Rare; United States; 19th century; Literature & Literary. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 53037. .
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- Bookseller
- Rarities etc.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 53037
- Title
- East and West Poems
- Author
- Bret Harte
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover (Original Cloth)
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine Condition
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Osgood
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1871
- Keywords
- BZDB17 Antiquarian & Rare; United States; 19th century; Literature & Literary. Bret Harte East and West Poems
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Warwick, New York
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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....
- Fine
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- Colophon
- The colophon contains information about a book's publisher, the typesetting, printer, and possibly even includes a printer's...
- 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...
- BAL
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- 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...
- First State
- used in book collecting to refer to a book from the earliest run of a first edition, generally distinguished by a change in some...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Tight
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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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Beveled
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