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Mosses from an Old Manse
by Hawthorne, Nathaniel
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good- with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
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About This Item
Boston: Ticknor and Fields. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1854. Hardcover. No signatures. Some rubbing and abrasions to leather. Joints intact. Some splitting to endpapers along gutters at hinges.. 1/8" rubbed away from leather at head of spine on first volume. Minor dampstain and tidemarks to upper outer corners of last few leaves of first volume. ; Second American edition. Two volumes (complete). Rebound in full brown calf. Each volume with five raised bands on spine, two red-brown lettering pieces with gilt lettering, blind tooled triple border to boards. All page edges dyed red. Marbled endpapers. Binding date uncertain, later 19th century? Page dimensions: 177 x 109mm (7" x 4 3/8"). This second American edition was revised by Hawthorne, and has three additional selections published in collected form for the first time - "Feathertop; a Moralized Legend" in the first volume, and "Passage from a Relinquished Work" and "Sketches from Memory" in the second volume. Without final blank leaves as called for in Clark, but with a single blank fly leaf (not integral with the gatherings) present at the front and rear inside of the free endpapers in each volume. [Bibliographical reference: Clark A15.3.a.] .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Renaissance Books
(NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 19623
- Title
- Mosses from an Old Manse
- Author
- Hawthorne, Nathaniel
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good- with no dust jacket
- Publisher
- Ticknor and Fields
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1854
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Renaissance Books
Biblio member since 2005
Dunedin, New Zealand
About Renaissance Books
We are located in Dunedin, in the South Island of New Zealand. We have in stock over 8,500 books. We are a general antiquarian and out-of-print home-based bookseller, with some specialty areas in English literature, Maori, Travel, Tibet, and New Zealand history.
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- Rebound
- A book in which the pages have been bound into a covering replacing the original covering issued by the publisher.
- 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...
- Raised Band(s)
- Raised bands refer to the ridges that protrude slightly from the spine on leather bound books. The bands are created in the...
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- Calf
- Calf or calf hide is a common form of leather binding. Calf binding is naturally a light brown but there are ways to treat the...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....
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