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The Flush Times of Alabama and Mississippi. A Series of Sketches
by Joseph G. Baldwin
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- Condition
- fair
- Seller
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Bordentown, New Jersey, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: D. Appleton, 1855. Ninth edition. Hardcover. fair. Octavo in brown cloth with spine ornately lettered in gilt. One leaf of publisher's ads at front. Engraved frontis on dark brown stock of a comic "Oliver Suggs, Jr.") . vii+ 330 pp. with publisher's catalogue. The ninth edition. A working copy, no endpapers, foxing througout and some light tidemarking to tha final third of the text block. Both gutters frayed but the book is actually tight in the binding. A collection of offbeat and often humorous anecdotes about the ante-bellum deep South. Some of these had appeared previously in The Southern Literary Messenger magazine.
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- Bookseller
- The Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABNJ)
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- E20198
- Title
- The Flush Times of Alabama and Mississippi. A Series of Sketches
- Author
- Joseph G. Baldwin
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Ninth edition
- Publisher
- D. Appleton
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1855
- Keywords
- humor, south, alabama, mississippi, anecdotes, americana
- Bookseller catalogs
- Humor;
Terms of Sale
The Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABNJ)
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About the Seller
The Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABNJ)
Biblio member since 2005
Bordentown, New Jersey
About The Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABNJ)
The Old Book Shop of Bordentown is a general used/rare bookshop open to the public Tues.-Sunday 11AM to 5PM (8 PM on Fridays). 10,000 books on premises with another 25,000 in stock. Areas of speciality include baseball, New Jersey, American literature, mysteries. Member, ABAA, ILAB,Antiquarian Booksellers of New Jersey. Located in historic Bordentown City, New Jeresy (est. 1682).
Glossary
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- 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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
- 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...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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