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Plantation Melodies
by Foster, Stephen Collins
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
-
Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada
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About This Item
Boston: Joseph Knight Company, 1888. Book. Illus. by Charles Copeland, Mary Hallock Foote. Very Good. Hardcover. Reprint.. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Contains lyrics and music for three Foster compositions, "Old Folks at Home," "My Old Kentucky Home," and "Nelly Was a Lady." Frontispiece illustration of Christine Nilsson "as she appeared when singing 'The Swanee River.'" Ivory cloth w/silver foil lettering/decoration, silver foil illustration in navy blue circular design, pale blue decoration, the same silver foil/pale blue/navy blue lettering decorations to spine, gilt edges, unpaginated (98), copiously illustrated. Mildly cocked, light smudging/soil to cloth, bumped/moderately worn corners, light flaking to edge gilt, previous owner's stamped surname to both pastedowns, short tears to hinges, frontispiece tissue excised..
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Details
- Bookseller
- Augustine Funnell Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 019364
- Title
- Plantation Melodies
- Author
- Foster, Stephen Collins
- Illustrator
- Charles Copeland, Mary Hallock Foote
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- Reprint.
- Publisher
- Joseph Knight Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1888
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- plantation life, NOISBN, African-Americans, Kentucky, Black women, plantations, Swanee River, racism, slaves, slavery, Christine Nilsson
- Bookseller catalogs
- History; Music & Dance;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
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Fredericton, New Brunswick
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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...
- Reprint
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- Cocked
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- Cloth
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- Edges
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