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An Island Garden.
by THAXTER, Celia
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
-
Springfield, Massachusetts, United States
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About This Item
Boston:: Houghton, Mifflin & Co.,. Very Good. 1895. Hardcover. B0195L1IJQ . With color pictures and illuminations by Childe Hassam, including twelve tissue-guarded plates. An early printing. Tipped onto the front paste-down is a single sheet with the author's poem, "Song: A bird upon a rosy bough..." - written in the author's hand and SIGNED. Octavo, bound in green cloth with gilt lettering and decorations, top edge gilt. Moderate shelf wear and aging, age darkened/foxed along the spine, two previous owners' book-plates on front paste-down (beneath the tipped sheet), newspaper article announcing a previous owner's wedding affixed to front free endpaper, else very good. Binding is solid. ; 126 pages .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Grendel Books, ABAA/ILAB
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 83723
- Title
- An Island Garden.
- Author
- THAXTER, Celia
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Publisher
- Houghton, Mifflin & Co.,
- Place of Publication
- Boston:
- Date Published
- 1895
- Keywords
- B0195L1IJQ, GARDENING, MAINE, POETRY, SIGNED
- Bookseller catalogs
- Gardening and Horticulture;
Terms of Sale
Grendel Books, ABAA/ILAB
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About the Seller
Grendel Books, ABAA/ILAB
Biblio member since 2003
Springfield, Massachusetts
About Grendel Books, ABAA/ILAB
Booksellers since 1987. ABAA, ILAB, IOBA, and SNEAB member.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
- 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...
- 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....
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- Top Edge Gilt
- Top edge gilt refers to the practice of applying gold or a gold-like finish to the top of the text block (the edges the pages...
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