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Bracebridge Hall
by Irving, Washington
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good Minus
- Seller
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Newburyport, Massachusetts, United States
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About This Item
London: MacMillan & Co., 1877 Printed by R & R. Clark, Edinburgh. Hard cover, 8vo., in dark green publisher's cloth with gilt decoration and titles to front board and spine, 284 pp. plus 4 pp. reviews and advertisement. No dust jacket. Frontispiece with tissue guard. Illustrator Randolf Caldecott (1846-1886) is acknowledged in the Preface as the "same able pencil" to have illustrated MacMillan's re-publication of Irving's "Old Christmas the year prior. Gift inscription in old ink dated Ap. 1879. Small bookbinder's label on rear pastedown: "Bound by Burn and Co., London." Condition: Very GoodMinus. Rear hinge cracked. Corners are gently rubbed, and there is a small closed tear at head of spine. Interior is clean, lightly age-toned with no obvious foxing. A pictorial bookplate of a former owner is upon the pastedown. . First Edition Thus. Hard Cover. Very Good Minus. Illus. by Randolf Caldecott.
Synopsis
Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists, A Medley was written by Washington Irving in 1821, while he lived in England, and published in 1822. This episodic novel was originally published under his pseudonym Geoffrey Crayon.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Dark and Stormy Night Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 8187
- Title
- Bracebridge Hall
- Author
- Irving, Washington
- Illustrator
- Randolf Caldecott
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Minus
- Edition
- First Edition Thus
- Publisher
- MacMillan & Co.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1877
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About the Seller
Dark and Stormy Night Books
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Newburyport, Massachusetts
About Dark and Stormy Night Books
Now entering our eighteenth year, Dark and Stormy Night Books is an online bookstore carrying Rare, Antiquarian and other interesting finds. Alasdair and Alexandra Johnson, Proprietors. Alasdair, from Edinburgh, Scotland has a colorful heritage including the salvage of shipwrecks off the English coast, and transportation of an eighteenth-century revolutionary relative to Australia. When not swashbuckling through the world of electronics and other gizmos as a lad, he scared himself silly with science-fiction, ghost stories and gothic novels. His partner, Alexandra, is a third-generation book dealer, whose family had the smallest of small-press workshops in the family barn. She is a graduate in history and art history from Bowdoin College, with a particular interest in the Far East and the China trade, the Pre-Raphaelite brotherhood, and the British Arts & Crafts Movement. She also spent some years working for a nationally known early-American antiques dealer. They make their home in historic Newburyport, on the Massachusetts coast. Visit our website: www.darkandstormynightbooks.com
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- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Gilt
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- Cracked
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