(Charles Lamb) The Essays of Elia (first series); Essays of Elia (second series); (William Hazlitt) The Spirit of the Age: or Contemporary Portraits; (Wiley and Putnam's Library of Choice Reading) [three complete volumes bound as one)
by Charles Lamb ; William Hazlitt
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Newmarket, New Hampshire, United States
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About This Item
New York, New York: Wiley & Putnam, 1845-1846. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 3 volumes bound as one. Octavo, 7 1/2" tall, vol. 1: 193 pages; vol. 2: 169; vol. 3: 269 pages; three-quarter leather over marbled boards. A good copy overall, interior generally clean, internal binding solid, paper moderately yellowed with little foxing overall, BUT a damp stain to the fore-edge margin of one 20-page section, and hinges badly cracked, the exterior is generally worn and rubbed, fore-corners through and many edges through to boards, back strip chipped at all edges with hinges split and loosened. Sold as a good original reading copy only.
Details
- Bookseller
- Avenue Victor Hugo Books LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 46837
- Title
- (Charles Lamb) The Essays of Elia (first series); Essays of Elia (second series); (William Hazlitt) The Spirit of the Age: or Contemporary Portraits; (Wiley and Putnam's Library of Choice Reading) [three complete volumes bound as one)
- Author
- Charles Lamb ; William Hazlitt
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Wiley & Putnam
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York
- Date Published
- 1845-1846
- Keywords
- Politics; Memoir; Biography, essays, literature; History; Belles-Lettres; Literature; Philosophy
- Bookseller catalogs
- Essay;
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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About the Seller
Avenue Victor Hugo Books LLC
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Newmarket, New Hampshire
About Avenue Victor Hugo Books LLC
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Our store is open Fridays & Saturdays from 10am to 6pm in Lee, New Hampshire, less than 10 minutes from the University of New Hampshire.
Avenue Victor Hugo Books specialize in first editions of the best in fiction, history, biography, poetry, drama, and essay. Our catalogue features careful, considered assessments of all of our stock. We are not flippers selling books by the pound. Instead, we try to limit our stock to books in a condition we'd be proud to place on our personal bookshelves.
For nearly 30 years, Avenue Victor Hugo Books was a fixture of Newbury Street in Boston's Back Bay, at one time holding over a quarter-million magazines and 150,000 used books. Awarded "Best Used Bookstore" multiple times by Boston Magazine, the store was a favorite of Boston-area authors and college students alike.
Since relocating to New Hampshire our shop has been featured on WBGH Boston News, WVCB's "Boston Chronicle," NHPR, and WMUR's "New Hampshire Chronicle." Avenue Victor Hugo has also recently been featured in "New Hampshire magazine," "The Boston Globe," UNH's "The New Hampshire," "The New Hampshire Union Leader," and "Foster's Daily Democrat."
Our store is open Fridays & Saturdays from 10am to 6pm in Lee, New Hampshire, less than 10 minutes from the University of New Hampshire.
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- First Edition
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- Octavo
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- Edges
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- Cracked
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- Reading Copy
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