Social Customs [Inscribed]
by Florence Howe Hall
- Used
- Very Good
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Washington, District of Columbia, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Estes and Lauriat, 1887. Very Good. Boston: Estes and Lauriat, [1887]. First Edition. Octavo (20.5cm.); publisher's blue decorative gilt-stamped cloth, top edge gilt; x,332pp. Extremities a bit scuffed, shallow loss at spine crown, spine cloth rather darkened, text block a bit soiled, else a Very Good, internally clean and sound copy.
Inscribed on front free endpaper: "Elizabeth Prescott Hall from the Author," below which is the ownership rubber-stamp of a Frances Minturn Hall (both presumed relations of the author).
Description of American social customs and etiquette by the woman's suffragist, later awarded along with her two sisters the first Pulitzer Prize for biography for their work "Julia Ward Howe" (1917).
Inscribed on front free endpaper: "Elizabeth Prescott Hall from the Author," below which is the ownership rubber-stamp of a Frances Minturn Hall (both presumed relations of the author).
Description of American social customs and etiquette by the woman's suffragist, later awarded along with her two sisters the first Pulitzer Prize for biography for their work "Julia Ward Howe" (1917).
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- Bookseller
- Capitol Hill Books, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 7578
- Title
- Social Customs [Inscribed]
- Author
- Florence Howe Hall
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Estes and Lauriat
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1887
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- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- Cloth
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- Text Block
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- Octavo
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- First Edition
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- Spine
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- Inscribed
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