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Songs and Ballads
by Lover, Samuel
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good Plus/No Jacket
- Seller
-
Chico, California, United States
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About This Item
London: Chapman and Hall, 1839. Dublin-born Samuel Lover (1797-1868) achieved great polularity with his songs and novels; he also was an artist and business partner of Charles Dickens. This is a Very Good (Plus) copy of the First Edition. Uncommon. Nicely bound in green leather; stamped, filled with gilt; darker green tips and spine. The spine has raised bands and four Irish harps.Rubbed at the margins, but no flaking. Clean text; 134 pages. Samuel Lover has INSCRIBED this copy and SIGNED it ("S.L.") on the Title Page. This is an ex-lib copy, but the treatments are minimal and probably date from the 19th Century. Quercus notes stamps on the FFEP and the rear paste-down, and there is a small pocket on the RFEP that has offset to the paste-down. A lovely little volume, and rare with the author's hand. Size: 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Inscribed By Author. First Edition.. Full-Leather. Very Good Plus/No Jacket.
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Details
- Seller
- Quercus Rare Books
(US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 002155
- Title
- Songs and Ballads
- Author
- Lover, Samuel
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Plus
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition.
- Publisher
- Chapman and Hall
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1839
- Bookseller catalogs
- Irish Literature;
Terms of Sale
Quercus Rare Books
We accept checks and money orders in US Dollars. Credit card orders are accepted through Biblio. California residents add appropriate sales tax. Items are returnable for any reason within ten days of receipt (please email or call first before returning item).
About the Seller
Quercus Rare Books
Biblio member since 2006
Chico, California
About Quercus Rare Books
Quercus Books seeks out and provides to the discriminating Reader or Collector noteworthy books in the First Edition. Our particular focus is on Modern Literature (roughly from the Second World War to the present) and Irish Authors. We also retain a small stock of non-fiction titles, mostly in the fields of American Western History, American Indians, and the American Civil War. Member of IOBA - the Independent Online Booksellers Association.
Glossary
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- Offset
- A technique of printing where the inked image or text is ...
- 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....
- Raised Band(s)
- Raised bands refer to the ridges that protrude slightly from the spine on leather bound books. The bands are created in the...
- 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...
- Inscribed
- When a book is described as being inscribed, it indicates that a short note written by the author or a previous owner has been...
- 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...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- RFEP
- The portion of the endpaper which is left loose after binding. The first loose page upon opening a book from the rear. It may be...
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
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