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Wild Scenes and Song Birds
by MILLER, Alfred j. and Webber, Charles Wilkins
- Used
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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East Woodstock, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
New York: George P. Putnam & Co., , 1854. First Edition, first issue. Beautifully illustrated with 20 chromolithograph plates, 15 of birds by Mrs. Webber, and 5 of Native American scenes by the great early Western artists, Alfred Jacob Miller. Miller's works are very scarce in chromolithograph format. The plate of Indian Girl Swinging shows her bare-breasted as called for in the first issue (in later printings she has been provided a blouse). Large octavo (binding is approximately 7 inches wide and 10 inches tall). In the scarce publisher's full black Morocco, highly decorated in gilt on both the front and back covers and the spine. Both covers have a large depressed lozenge with a gilt bird in the center. Very scarce in the deluxe Morocco binding. Near fine with light edge wear.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Yesterday's Gallery, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 40587
- Title
- Wild Scenes and Song Birds
- Author
- MILLER, Alfred j. and Webber, Charles Wilkins
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- George P. Putnam & Co.,
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1854
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
Terms of Sale
Yesterday's Gallery, ABAA
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Yesterday's Gallery, ABAA
Biblio member since 2020
East Woodstock, Connecticut
About Yesterday's Gallery, ABAA
For the past many years this firm has strived to provide a large, high quality, and diverse collection of mostly fiction published primarily before the Second World War and with their original dustjackets. Our specialties include Photoplay Editions, Mysteries, Fantasy Literature, Plays, Romances, Westerns, Hollywood Interest, and Business Fiction. We also have a large collection of Cocktail Recipe Books, Children's Literature and 19th Century Literature. We pride ourselves on providing accurately described, high grade, and difficult to locate titles in these fiction genres.
Glossary
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- 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...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- 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....
- Morocco
- Morocco is a style of leather book binding that is usually made with goatskin, as it is durable and easy to dye. (see also...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- 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...
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