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Black Cato
by M.A. Osgood
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
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Warwick, New York, United States
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About This Item
Lee & Shepherd, Boston, 1873. Early Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. OSGOOD, MRS. M.A. Black Cato, New York and Boston: Lee & Shepherd/Dillingham, 1873. 12mo, early printing of a book released in 1872 as part of the Little Canary Series of children's books, pp. 207, frontis and 2 title pages (one illustrated) pebbled green cloth boards with gilt-stamped lettering and illustration. Adventures of white children and an ex-slave, 22-year-old Cato; plenty of dialect to think about here. Condition of this book: Overall very good, boards lightly worn with rubbing at extremities. Name penciled on front pastedown, free front endpaper lacking, other leaves clean and tight, toning, tissue protecting title page is foxing. Size: duodecimo. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Antiquarian & Rare; United States; 19th century; Children. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 51623. .
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- Bookseller
- Rarities etc.
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 51623
- Title
- Black Cato
- Author
- M.A. Osgood
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover (Original Cloth)
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Condition
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Early Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Lee & Shepherd
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1873
- Keywords
- BZDB17 Antiquarian & Rare; United States; 19th century; Children. M.A. Osgood Black Cato
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About the Seller
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Warwick, New York
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Glossary
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- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- Pebbled
- Pebbled cloth or leather describes the covering of a hardcover book with a decorative texture of repeated small raised bumps,...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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....
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