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Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands : in Two Volumes
by Stowe, Harriet Beecher
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+ with no dust jacket
- Seller
-
Hartland, Michigan, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Phillips, Sampson, and Company. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1854. First Edition :. Hardcover. Two matching volumes in blind-stamped brown cloth, gilt lettering on spines, light wear to tips of spines, tight bindings, hinges holding strongly, pages clean unfoxed, unmarked untorn, light toning to spines, light shelfwear to covers, else VG+. A handsome set, looks to be seldom read, not beat up as is usual for this set. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Mossback Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 27954
- Title
- Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands : in Two Volumes
- Author
- Stowe, Harriet Beecher
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+ with no dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition :
- Publisher
- Phillips, Sampson, and Company
- Date Published
- 1854
- Keywords
- Harriet Stowe's Travels; Foreign Travel;
- Bookseller catalogs
- Travel;
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
Terms of Sale
Mossback Books
books sent by Media mail @$4.25 first book $3 each book thereafter; average size Air mail @$8.25 within midwest-zone(west-coast zone-$10.50) first book. Heavy books quote for air mail. Books can be returned within 7 days of receipt for any reason but with prior notice given to the seller. Foreign sales need to obtain a quote for postage.
About the Seller
Mossback Books
Biblio member since 2004
Hartland, Michigan
About Mossback Books
Sales through the internet and at book shows in the midwest.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- 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...
- Jacket
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- First Edition
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