Men of Our Times; or Leading Patriots of the Day, Being Narratives of the Lives and Deeds of Statesmen, Generals, and Orators, Including Biographical Sketches and Anecdotes...
by Stowe, Harriet Beecher
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/N/A
- Seller
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Kutztown, Pennsylvania, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Hartford, CT: Hartford Publishing Co., 1868. Book. Very Good. Original Cloth. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Green pebbled cloth, lettered in gilt, with gilt facsimile signature on front panel, beveled edges. Modest shelf wear with minor exposure at corners, a bit of rubbing to spine extremities, surface scratch to cloth on lower rear cover, text block edges somewhat toned by age. Firm binding, intact hinges, clean interior. xiv,11-575,[3] pp., illus. w/ 18 steel engravings with tissue guards. 1st edition, matching dates. A decently preserved copy with relatively minor cosmetic faults, better than typically found..
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- Bookseller
- Saucony Book Shop (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 037790
- Title
- Men of Our Times; or Leading Patriots of the Day, Being Narratives of the Lives and Deeds of Statesmen, Generals, and Orators, Including Biographical Sketches and Anecdotes...
- Author
- Stowe, Harriet Beecher
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- N/A
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Hartford Publishing Co.
- Place of Publication
- Hartford, CT
- Date Published
- 1868
- Bookseller catalogs
- American History; Military History;
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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Saucony Book Shop
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About the Seller
Saucony Book Shop
Biblio member since 2005
Kutztown, Pennsylvania
About Saucony Book Shop
The Saucony Book Shop, located in the heart of scenic rural Berks County, epicenter of Pennsylvania German folk culture (our shop specialty), offers a full range of gently used, rare, and antiquarian books, with many volumes of scholarly merit and an unabashed emphasis on the quaint, the curious, and the utterly obscure. We make no attempt to be a general-service book shop. Our inventory is highly selective, individually chosen from among the hundreds of thousands of books to which we have access annually at auctions, library and estate sales, and through individual scouts and vendors. We do not handle material that does not meet our expectations in terms of condition or interest to our specialized, idiosyncratic customers. Despite maintaining a browsing inventory of more than 15,000 volumes, we have minimized our carbon footprint by maintaining our entire operation in a cozy ca. 1890 barn and lean-to adjacent to an historic creamery in rural Maxatawny Township. Our shop is available for browsing by appointment and occasionally, in temperate weather, by chance, so email or call ahead to peruse the eclectic selection gracing our shelves, or ask our ferociously over-read staff for recommendations. Selling antiquarian books of merit since 1981. Full search and appraisal services; always keenly interested in purchasing quality used books, whether by the piece or by the bushel. Thanks for reading about us! Go placidly amid the noise and haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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....
- Pebbled
- Pebbled cloth or leather describes the covering of a hardcover book with a decorative texture of repeated small raised bumps,...
- Facsimile
- An exact copy of an original work. In books, it refers to a copy or reproduction, as accurate as possible, of an original...
- 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...
- Beveled
- Beveled edges, or beveled boards, describe a technique of binding in which the edges of book boards have been cut into slanted...
- 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...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....