The Gates Ajar
by Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Spine heavily sunned, binding cocked, light foxing throughout: Good
- Seller
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Brattleboro, Vermont, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Fields, Osgood, & Co., 1869. Maroon cloth.. Spine heavily sunned, binding cocked, light foxing throughout: Good. 12mo. 1st Edition, 3rd printing. LW II 2628 lists 15 copies & notes: "1st prtg. probably one with 'nears' in second line of dedication instead of 'approaches'. BAL 20865 says this indicates 3rd printing. Broken type top of p. 8; at bottom of p. 40 fixed
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Details
- Bookseller
- The Bear Bookshop, John Greenberg (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3593103099
- Title
- The Gates Ajar
- Author
- Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart
- Format/Binding
- Maroon cloth.
- Book Condition
- Used - Spine heavily sunned, binding cocked, light foxing throughout: Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Fields, Osgood, & Co.
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1869
- Pages
- 248pp.
- Size
- 12mo
- Keywords
- 19th Century 1st editions, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart Ward, 19th Century American Women's Literature, Fiction, First Editions
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About the Seller
The Bear Bookshop, John Greenberg
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Brattleboro, Vermont
About The Bear Bookshop, John Greenberg
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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...
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- 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....
- 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...
- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...