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Mosses from an Old Manse
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair
- Seller
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St. Paul, Minnesota, United States
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About This Item
New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1846. First Edition, later state. Hardcover. Fair. 19.5 x 13 cm. 12mo. 207pp, 211pp no advertisements. Two volumes bound as one with seperate pagination and title pages, as issued. First edition, later state of the cloth edition. 1846 on title pages and copyright page of volume 1, no date on copyright page of volume 2. T. B. Smith Stereotyper on both copyright pages, no mention of R. Craighead's Power Press but copyright page of volume 2 mentions William Osborn, Printer. Wiley and Putnam's Library of American Books; New York. BAL 7598. Binding is worn and has binder's tape repairs around the edges. Interior is heavily foxed.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Midway Used and Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 60829
- Title
- Mosses from an Old Manse
- Author
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, later state
- Publisher
- Wiley and Putnam
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1846
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature/Fiction;
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Midway Used and Rare Books
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St. Paul, Minnesota
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Copyright page
- The page in a book that describes the lineage of that book, typically including the book's author, publisher, date of...
- Later State
- used in book collecting to refer to a book from a later run of a first edition, generally distinguished by a change in some part...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- BAL
- Bibliography of American Literature (commonly abbreviated as BAL in descriptions) is the quintessential reference work for any...
- 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...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
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