Peter Parley's Tales about South America
by [Samuel Griswold Goodrich]
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Ypsilanti, Michigan, United States
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About This Item
Baltimore: Joseph Jewett, 1832. Half black leather & rose paper over boards, gilt spine title, frontis map, title page vignette, & numerous engravings in the text; A good solid moderately foxed copy with 3/4" loss of lower margin of frontis, & early ink owner name on fep; 172 pages. . 4.25"x5.5".
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Details
- Bookseller
- White Raven Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- BM12317
- Title
- Peter Parley's Tales about South America
- Author
- [Samuel Griswold Goodrich]
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Joseph Jewett
- Place of Publication
- Baltimore
- Date Published
- 1832
- Bookseller catalogs
- Travel; Juvenalia;
- Size
- 4.25"x5.5"
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White Raven Books
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Ypsilanti, Michigan
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- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Vignette
- A decorative design or illustration placed at the beginning or end of a ...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- 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...
- 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....