Kavanagh: A Tale
by LONGFELLOW, Henry Wadsworth
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Littleton, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company. Good with no dust jacket. 1893. Hardcover. An 1893 reprint edition of Longfellow's 1849 romance novel. In publisher's Portland Edition. --- In dark green paper-covered boards backed in white cloth, with titling & decorations in gilt on cover and spine. Lacks a dust jacket. --- A Good only copy: interior leaves are quite browned but readable, some chafing to edges of covers and spine is lightly soiled; overall volume is intact and binding is firm.; 16mo (6 to 7 in. tall); 188 pages .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bluebird Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 80740
- Title
- Kavanagh: A Tale
- Author
- LONGFELLOW, Henry Wadsworth
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good with no dust jacket
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1893
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About the Seller
Bluebird Books
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Littleton, Colorado
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