Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company. Very Good+ with No dust jacket as issued. 1888. 1st Edition. Second Printing. Leather. Bound in half blue morocco over marbled boards, gilt lettering on spine, gilt borders on covers, t.e.g., marbled endpapers, ribbon marked bound in. Illustrated with tissue-protected engraved frontispiece portrait. . Small loss near head of spine, minor shelf-wear at head and heel, else fine; unmarked, unread, tight, square, fresh, and clean. VERY GOOD+. . Frontispiece Portrait. 12mo 7" - 7½" tall. viii, 218 pp .

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Bookseller: Round Table Books, LLC (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 28761
Title: Heartsease and Rue
Author: Lowell, James Russell
Format/Binding: Leather
Book Condition: Used - Very Good+ with No dust jacket as issued
Edition: 1st Edition. Second Printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Houghton, Mifflin and Company
Place of Publication: Boston
Date Published: 1888
Keywords: Literature, ESSAYS, Fine Binding, James Russell Lowell

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Morocco: Morocco is a style of leather book binding that is usually made with goatskin, as it is durable and easy to dye. (see also...
Heel: The lower most portion of the spine when the book is standing vertically.
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...
Tight: Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
Marbled boards: ...
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...
Good+: A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...