THE RIVER'S CHILDREN AN IDYL OF THE MISSISSIPPI
by STUART, Ruth McEnery
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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ELLSWORTH, Maine, United States
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About This Item
Publisher's green cloth with spine lettering and large upper board vignette gilt, 12mo (7 1/4 inches height x 4 1/4 inches width), pp. 179. Tissue guarded frontispiece and 4 other illustrations as called for. Previous owner 1908 Christmas signature on free front end-paper. Small old inventory number rubber-stamped near top edge of rear endpaper. Fore-edge and bottom-edge untrimmed. GOOD condition with shelf wear and rubs at spine ends and board tips. See WORK, Monroe, Bibliography of the Negro in Africa and America, Mansfield Centre, page 467.
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Details
- Bookseller
- T. BRENNAN BOOKSELLER, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3472
- Title
- THE RIVER'S CHILDREN AN IDYL OF THE MISSISSIPPI
- Author
- STUART, Ruth McEnery
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- New York: The Century Co., 1904
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- African Americana; Southern interest;
Terms of Sale
T. BRENNAN BOOKSELLER, ABAA
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About the Seller
T. BRENNAN BOOKSELLER, ABAA
Biblio member since 2013
ELLSWORTH, Maine
About T. BRENNAN BOOKSELLER, ABAA
Thomas Brennan was established professionally as a Bookseller in 1998 and still exhibits annually at several antiquarian book fairs. He has 25 years full-time experience in the Book Trade and is a member in good standing of The International League of Antiquarian Booksellers (ILAB); The Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America (ABAA); The Ephemera Society of America; and The Manuscript Society.
Glossary
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- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- Vignette
- A decorative design or illustration placed at the beginning or end of a ...
- 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....
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...