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Helen, A Tale (Two Volumes)
by Edgeworth, Maria
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good Minus/No Jacket
- Seller
-
Chico, California, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Philadelphia & Boston: Carey, Lea & Blanchard and Allen & Ticknor, 1834. This is a Very Good (Minus) copy of the First American Edition, also published by Harper in the same year. Two volumes. Marbled paper-covered boards with leather tips and spine. The spine is ruled, embossed, and filled with gilt, Clean text; 207 pages and 204 pages. edges are rubbed to a fray; both are cracking at the spine, and there are flood marks scattered through the pages. Please note the condition issues. Although far from disbound, Quercus must offer this as a Reading Copy, in need of repair or restoration. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. First American Edition.. Hard Cover. Very Good Minus/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Quercus Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 002534
- Title
- Helen, A Tale (Two Volumes)
- Author
- Edgeworth, Maria
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Minus
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First American Edition.
- Publisher
- Carey, Lea & Blanchard and Allen & Ticknor
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia & Boston
- Date Published
- 1834
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Bookseller catalogs
- Irish Literature;
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
Terms of Sale
Quercus Rare Books
We accept checks and money orders in US Dollars. Credit card orders are accepted through Biblio. California residents add appropriate sales tax. Items are returnable for any reason within ten days of receipt (please email or call first before returning item).
About the Seller
Quercus Rare Books
Biblio member since 2006
Chico, California
About Quercus Rare Books
Quercus Books seeks out and provides to the discriminating Reader or Collector noteworthy books in the First Edition. Our particular focus is on Modern Literature (roughly from the Second World War to the present) and Irish Authors. We also retain a small stock of non-fiction titles, mostly in the fields of American Western History, American Indians, and the American Civil War. Member of IOBA - the Independent Online Booksellers Association.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Reading Copy
- Indicates a book that is perfectly serviceable for reading. It may have a defect or damage. As such, reading copy is not a...
- 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....
- 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...
- 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...
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