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Letters to Dead Authors (Cameo Edition)
by Lang, Andrew
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good+
- Seller
-
Datil, New Mexico, United States
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About This Item
NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1893. Hardcover, [viii], 253 pages. Good+ condition. Cameo edition. Size 6.625"x4.125". Green cloth w/cameo on front, gilt title on spine. Top edge gilt. This edition contains 4 new letters not previously published (to John, Knox, Increase Mather, Homer, and Samuel Pepys). Moderate exterior wear (rubbed extremities, light soiling). Frontis portrait browning. Final page has a small (3/8") closed tear on the top edge, interior text else Near Fine, clean and unmarked.. First Thus. Good+.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Florida Mountain Book Co.
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 007168
- Title
- Letters to Dead Authors (Cameo Edition)
- Author
- Lang, Andrew
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+
- Edition
- First Thus
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Charles Scribner's Sons
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1893
- Keywords
- LITERATURE LITERARY CRITICISM HISTORY COMMENTARY CAMEO EDITION
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Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Florida Mountain Book Co.
Biblio member since 2004
Datil, New Mexico
About Florida Mountain Book Co.
The Florida Mountains are located in southwestern New Mexico, near the U.S.-Mexico border. The Parsons family, proprietors of Florida Mountain Book Company, have been in the book business since 1996. Formerly the owners & operators of Readers' Cove Bookstore in Deming, New Mexico, beginning in May of 2012, we are now exclusively based on the internet.
Glossary
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- 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...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- 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....
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