PERSONAL POEMS; OCCASIONAL POEMS; THE TENT ON THE BEACH Limited large paper edition Volume IV of Whittier's Works
by Whittier,John Greenleaf (1807-1892)
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- Hardcover
- Condition
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- Seller
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Blockley, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Cambridge (USA): Riverside Press, 1888. Hardcover. Good. Portrait Frontispiece + publisher's vignette to titlepage. . Large octavo red morocco gilt on 5 raised bands and compartments full gilt (hinges cracking/tips worn to corners/spines sunned) Top Edge Gilt half title & titlepage in red and black 399pp. LIMITED EDITION of 400 copies this a LARGE PAPER copy No. 3. With Poems of Elizabeth H. Whittier & and Appendix containing early & uncollected verses. Very clean and white inside in handsome gilt binding. Discount if bought as a set with other volumes.
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- Bookseller
- Abbey Antiquarian Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- V72198
- Title
- PERSONAL POEMS; OCCASIONAL POEMS; THE TENT ON THE BEACH Limited large paper edition Volume IV of Whittier's Works
- Author
- Whittier,John Greenleaf (1807-1892)
- Illustrator
- Portrait Frontispiece + publisher's vignette to titlepage.
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Riverside Press
- Place of Publication
- Cambridge (USA)
- Date Published
- 1888
- Keywords
- American letters biography limited edition binding
- Bookseller catalogs
- Antiquarian;
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Abbey Antiquarian Books
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Blockley, Gloucestershire
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- 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...
- Top Edge Gilt
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- Morocco
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