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The Princess and other poems: vignette edition, with one hundred new illustrations
by Tennyson, Alfred, Lord, illustrations by Charles Howard Johnson
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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San Francisco, California, United States
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About This Item
New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1891. Hardcover. vii, 400p., frontispiece, illustrations, very good first edition thus in red and white cloth boards decorated in gilt with bright gilt spine titles, top edge gilt, ownership label on front paste-down, red ribbon bookmark bound-in, in very rare paper-backed red cloth dj.
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- Bookseller
- Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 274738
- Title
- The Princess and other poems: vignette edition, with one hundred new illustrations
- Author
- Tennyson, Alfred, Lord, illustrations by Charles Howard Johnson
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Frederick A. Stokes
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1891
- Bookseller catalogs
- Poetry; Illustrated books; Nineteenth century; Fairytales, fairy tales;
Terms of Sale
Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB
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About the Seller
Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB
Biblio member since 2005
San Francisco, California
About Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB
Established in 1981 in San Francisco, we specialize in books and ephemeral materials related to the history of Labor and other social movements, including the struggles for Black and Chicano equality, the Gay liberation movement, Feminism, and Asian-American activism, as well as the Far Right. In recent years Bolerium has expanded into materials in non-western languages, especially from East Asia, and has also placed more emphasis on ephemera, with tens of thousands of original leaflets, pamphlets, and posters in stock. You can sign up for free email lists in our subject areas at www.bolerium.com. We are located in San Francisco at 2141 Mission, Suite 300 (between 17th & 18th St.). We're open by appointment only..
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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...
- 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
- Top edge gilt refers to the practice of applying gold or a gold-like finish to the top of the text block (the edges the pages...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition 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....
- Paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
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