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ROSE IN BLOOM. A SEQUEL TO "EIGHT COUSINS"
by ALCOTT, LOUISA M
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- General Cover Wear/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
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Prairie Village, Kansas, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1876. Spine lettered and designed in gillt. Brown endpapers. Edges and corners are worn. Spine extremities frayed, with 1/4" piece missing at foot. Previous owner name and inscription dated "Xmas 1879" on front preliminary page. Vignette title-page. This is the second printing of the book with the "s" on "with illustrations" partially removed leaving a period. The first printing had the full "s", which was changed because there is only a single illustration (first issue point). See BAL181. Text is clean. 375pp. In spite of the cover flaws, we offer it because the book does not appear on the market all that often.. First Edition, Second Printing. Green Cloth. General Cover Wear/No Dust Jacket. Octavo.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Glenn Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 015460
- Title
- ROSE IN BLOOM. A SEQUEL TO "EIGHT COUSINS"
- Author
- ALCOTT, LOUISA M
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - General Cover Wear
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition, Second Printing
- Publisher
- Roberts Brothers
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1876
- Size
- Octavo
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- American Literature, Alcott
Terms of Sale
Glenn Books
All books are subject to prior sale. Books are guaranteed as described and may be returned to us within 10 days with immediate notice of intent to return the item.
About the Seller
Glenn Books
Biblio member since 2005
Prairie Village, Kansas
About Glenn Books
We are an antiquarian bookshop established in 1933. We are members of ABAA and ILAB.
Glossary
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Vignette
- A decorative design or illustration placed at the beginning or end of a ...
- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
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