BALLADS OF HOME
by Baker, George M., editor
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair /No Jacket
- Seller
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Portland, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Lee and Shepard, Publishers. Brown cloth with gilt lettering and embossed decoration in gilt and dark brown. All edges gilt. Beveled edges. 40 full page illustrations, all present. 40 poems. Cover is worn with some fraying on edges, especially tips and at top and bottom of spine. Hinges starting to crack. Damp stain on back cover and on some of the inside pages along the edge. A little margin notes here and there. Some of the pages in the middle of the book are coming loose. . Fair. Hardcover. 1876.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Pam's Fine Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 058641
- Title
- BALLADS OF HOME
- Author
- Baker, George M., editor
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Lee and Shepard, Publishers
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1876
- Pages
- 167
- Keywords
- poetry; engraved pictures; gilt;
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall.
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Pam's Fine Books
Biblio member since 2004
Portland, Oregon
About Pam's Fine Books
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- 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....
- Fair
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- 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...
- Beveled
- Beveled edges, or beveled boards, describe a technique of binding in which the edges of book boards have been cut into slanted...
- 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...
- Cloth
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