THE YOUNG LADY'S GIFT: A COMMON-PLACE BOOK OF PROSE AND POETRY
by Various
- Used
- poor
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Poor/No Jacket
- Seller
-
Oneonta, New York, United States
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About This Item
Providence, RI: B. Cranston & Co., 1838. This antique hardcover collection of short pieces by popular 19th-century female authors has original dark blue cloth cover with decorative etching, gilt emblems on front and back as well as gilt spine lettering. Cover wear, foxing; owner's name on front endpaper, cracked hinges, faded spine, spine wear and chipping, corner wear, edgewear, soil. Authors represented in this collection include Mrs. Hemans, Sarah Stickney, L.H. Sigourney, Mrs. Turnbull, Eliza Cook, and many more. Contains short fiction and poetry. 324 pages; approx. 4"x6".. Hard Cover. Poor/No Jacket. Illus. by None.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Popeks Books, IOBA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 98210
- Title
- THE YOUNG LADY'S GIFT: A COMMON-PLACE BOOK OF PROSE AND POETRY
- Author
- Various
- Illustrator
- None
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Poor
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Publisher
- B. Cranston & Co.
- Place of Publication
- Providence, RI
- Date Published
- 1838
- Keywords
- Fiction Antiquarian American Women Anthology Agnes Strickland Mrs. Hemans Sarah Stickney Fiction Poetry Prose
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About the Seller
Popeks Books, IOBA
Biblio member since 2003
Oneonta, New York
About Popeks Books, IOBA
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- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- 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...
- 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....
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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