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Pembroke
by Wilkins, Mary E. ; [Mary Eleanor Freeman Wilkins]
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good with no dust jacket; Two plates loose, boards grubby and foxed, front hinge cracked.
- Seller
-
Selkirk, New York, United States
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About This Item
NY: Harper and Brothers. Good with no dust jacket; Two plates loose, boards grubby and foxed, front . hinge cracked.. 1894. First Edition. Hardcover. Yellow cloth with gilt design and titles stamped on front boards and spine. Two pages of publisher's ads at rear. Owner signature of Jennie H. Richmond dated 1894 on front free endpaper. Many black and white illustrations. Wright III 2037. BAL 6337. A novel set in a rural Massachusetts town, but also exploring the lives of women without men in the late 19th century, which makes her transcend the bounds of a local-color writer, according to The Feminist Companion to Literature in English. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 330 pages .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Old Saratoga Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 36597
- Title
- Pembroke
- Author
- Wilkins, Mary E. ; [Mary Eleanor Freeman Wilkins]
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good with no dust jacket; Two plates loose, boards grubby and foxed, front hinge cracked.
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Harper and Brothers
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1894
- Keywords
- 19th Century American Fiction, Women Writers, BAL
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;
Terms of Sale
Old Saratoga Books
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About the Seller
Old Saratoga Books
Biblio member since 2005
Selkirk, New York
About Old Saratoga Books
Old Saratoga Books owners Dan and Rachel Jagareski have been selling books since 1996. After running an open shop for twenty years in the historic village of Schuylerville we now sell books online and at book fairs. We are members of the Independent Online Booksellers Association (IOBA). Our specialties include books about history, science, cooking, children's books, and the arts. Rachel is a graduate of the Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar and has attended Rare Book School in Charlottesville, Virginia.
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- 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....
- 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...
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
- 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...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- BAL
- Bibliography of American Literature (commonly abbreviated as BAL in descriptions) is the quintessential reference work for any...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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