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OLD BOSTON MUSEUM DAYS: WITH NUMBEROUS ILLUSTRATIONS FROM PHOTOGRAPHS
by RYAN, Kate
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Good-
- Seller
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ELLSWORTH, Maine, United States
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About This Item
Publisher's original blue cloth with top-edge, spine lettering, upper panel lettering and stately architectural decoration all gilt, octavo, pp. xii, 264. INSCRIBED by the author in a confident hand on the half-title page. Tissue-guarded frontis portrait of the author and 15 additional plates, as called for. Short September, 1915, gift inscription to previous owner from a friend at top of title page, and that owner's name and date (two weeks later) on free front endpaper. Short tear with no loss on one leaf (pp. 1-2) at mid fore-edge; off-setting at top of gutter, pp. 116 and 117, perhaps from a fragment of newspaper inserted long ago as a place marker; short tears at bottom edges of pp. 171-174 and again at pp. 183-186 that may have been caused by initial separating of the leaves with a dull implement or by an unskilled or unsteady hand. These are shallow marginal losses with no text affected. We have included our best attempts at close-up images of these several faults. GOOD condition withal, and uncommon indeed as a SIGNED First edition.
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- Bookseller
- T. BRENNAN BOOKSELLER, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3652
- Title
- OLD BOSTON MUSEUM DAYS
- Author
- RYAN, Kate
- Book Condition
- Used - Good-
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1915
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Massachusetts; Travel;
Terms of Sale
T. BRENNAN BOOKSELLER, ABAA
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About the Seller
T. BRENNAN BOOKSELLER, ABAA
Biblio member since 2013
ELLSWORTH, Maine
About T. BRENNAN BOOKSELLER, ABAA
Thomas Brennan was established professionally as a Bookseller in 1998 and still exhibits annually at several antiquarian book fairs. He has 25 years full-time experience in the Book Trade and is a member in good standing of The International League of Antiquarian Booksellers (ILAB); The Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America (ABAA); The Ephemera Society of America; and The Manuscript Society.
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