THE ABOLITIONISTS, TOGETHER WITH PERSONAL MEMORIES OF THE STRUGGLE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS, 1830-1864
by HUME, John F
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good -/No Jacket
- Seller
-
Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, Canada
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About This Item
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1905. First Edition . Cloth. Very Good -/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. iv, 224 pp, index, signed on the ffep by Hume with an inscription to the then editor of the Poughkeepsie News-Press, Richard E. Connell; minor soiling to boards, light rubbing to extremities, wear/rubbing to top edge of upper spine, some foxing to endpapers & page edges, otherwise a bright, tight copy. [15]
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- Bookseller
- J.C. Bell
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 175-17
- Title
- THE ABOLITIONISTS, TOGETHER WITH PERSONAL MEMORIES OF THE STRUGGLE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS, 1830-1864
- Author
- HUME, John F
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good -
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- G.P. Putnam's Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1905
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7&
- Keywords
- Slavery, Abolitionsim
- Bookseller catalogs
- History - American;
Terms of Sale
J.C. Bell
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About the Seller
J.C. Bell
Biblio member since 2005
Lunenburg, Nova Scotia
About J.C. Bell
We are a home-based book business and have been selling books online since 1998. We are currently in the process of cataloguing several more thousandused and antiquarian books.
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- G
- Good describes the average used and worn book that has all pages or leaves present. Any defects must be noted. (as defined by AB...
- 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....
- 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...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- Cloth
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