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THE PENNSYLVANIA PILGRIM AND OTHER POEMS
by WHITTIER, JOHN GREENLEAF
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Light edge and Corner Wear/No Jacket
- Seller
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Prairie Village, Kansas, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1872. Front cover and spine lettered and designed in gilt. Bevelled edges.Corners lightly worn. Spine extremities frayed. Original brown endpapers. Frontispiece illustration with tissue-guard. Several illustrations and head and tail pieces. Clean throughout text. BAL 21904 Printing 1 and Binding A. 129pp.. First Edition. Green Cloth. Light edge and Corner Wear/No Jacket. Small Octavo.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Glenn Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 013906
- Title
- THE PENNSYLVANIA PILGRIM AND OTHER POEMS
- Author
- WHITTIER, JOHN GREENLEAF
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Light edge and Corner Wear
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- James R. Osgood and Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1872
- Size
- Small Octavo
- Keywords
- Poetry, American Poetry
Terms of Sale
Glenn Books
All books are subject to prior sale. Books are guaranteed as described and may be returned to us within 10 days with immediate notice of intent to return the item.
About the Seller
Glenn Books
Biblio member since 2005
Prairie Village, Kansas
About Glenn Books
We are an antiquarian bookshop established in 1933. We are members of ABAA and ILAB.
Glossary
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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....
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- First Edition
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- BAL
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