Little Journeys to the Homes of English Authors
by Hubbard, Elbert
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Chagrin Falls, Ohio, United States
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About This Item
G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1903. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Very Good ; No jacket. 1903 G. P. Putnam's Sons. The Knickerbocker Press. NOT ex-library. Hardcover has blue-gray cloth-covered boards with beige cloth-covered spine. Spine has gold lettering and repeating decoration of an oil lamp and book with a quill pen. Fromt cover has small single image of book with pen in gold. Deckle fore and bottom edges. Top edges gilt. Frontispiece portrait with tissue guard. Tissued black and white plates, portraits of the authors. Text of each page is enclosed in a rectangular border. Binding tight. Hinges NOT cracked. Spine cloth somewhat darkened. Covers have light surface and edge wear. Pages clean and unmarked. Two very small black dots on the edge of the front endpaper. 419 pages. No dust jacket. Contents: William Morris - Robert Browning - Alfred Tennyson - Robert Burns - John Milton - Samuel Johnson - Thomas B. Macauley - Lord Byron - Joseph Addison - Robert Southey - Samuel T. Coleridge - Benjamin Disraeli. Carefully packed, shipped in a box.
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Details
- Bookseller
- SmarterRat Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 4969
- Title
- Little Journeys to the Homes of English Authors
- Author
- Hubbard, Elbert
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Publisher
- G. P. Putnam's Sons
- Date Published
- 1903
- Keywords
- Biography,Literature
- Bookseller catalogs
- Biography; Literature;
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Chagrin Falls, Ohio
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- Cracked
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- Edges
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- Tight
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- Spine
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- Gilt
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- Cloth
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- Jacket
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