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The Poetical Works of Bret Harte: Complete Edition
by HARTE, Bret
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Poor with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Littleton, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
New York: James R. Osgood and Company. Poor with no dust jacket. 1872. Hardcover. An ornate, though damaged, edition of Bret Harte's poetry. An early printing of work which first appeared in 1871. In full green cloth-covered beveled-edge boards with decorations and titling in bright gilt on cover and spine. All edges gilt. Illustrated with numerous unattributed b&w engravings. Each page framed with red line. --- Split at mid-volume, but textblock halves still attached to covers. Some pages loose or detached. ; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 333 pages .
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- Bookseller
- Bluebird Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 75233
- Title
- The Poetical Works of Bret Harte: Complete Edition
- Author
- HARTE, Bret
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Poor with no dust jacket
- Publisher
- James R. Osgood and Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1872
- Bookseller catalogs
- >>Poetry;
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- 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...
- Poor
- A book with significant wear and faults. A poor condition book is still a reading copy with the full text still readable. Any...
- 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....