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Elsie Venner: A Romance of Destiny
by Holmes, Oliver Wendell
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good Plus/No Jacket, As Issued
- Seller
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Granville, New York, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1861. Complete in 2 Volumes First editions. Hard cover in original cloth. Published Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1861. 12mo., blind embossed brown cloth with gilt spine titles. Volume 1 is probable second printing (publisher's List of Books at rear dated April, 1861); Volume 2 is first printing (publisher's List of Books dated February 1861). BAL 8801. Some fade spotting to the covers, some wear at the spine ends and tips, slight spine skew, with vol 2 bit shaken. Text clean and bright. Good plus. . 1st. Hard. Good Plus/No Jacket, As Issued. 12mo.
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- Bookseller
- The Wild Muse
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 005999
- Title
- Elsie Venner: A Romance of Destiny
- Author
- Holmes, Oliver Wendell
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good Plus
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket, As Issued
- Edition
- 1st
- Publisher
- Ticknor and Fields
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1861
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literary & Modern First Editions;
- Size
- 12mo
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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About The Wild Muse
Literary and modern first editions. Established 1985. Mail order only.
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- BAL
- Bibliography of American Literature (commonly abbreviated as BAL in descriptions) is the quintessential reference work for any...
- Shaken
- A hardcover in which the text block is loose, but still attached to the binding.
- 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....
- 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...
- 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...
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