COUNTRY STORIES
by Mitford, Mary Russell
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Good/No jacket
- Seller
-
Yarmouthport, Massachusetts, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Philadelphia:Carey, Lea & Blanchard, 1838. First Edition. hard cover. Good/No jacket. Philadelphia:Carey, Lea & Blanchard. 1838. 1st American edition. 212pp. Hardcover. Paper label on spine chipped, with boards soiled, shelfworn and scuffed. Edge points worn to boards. Internally, moderate foxing to end-pages as well as light foxing scattered throughout. Previous owners name is signed in ink to 1st free end-page and in pencil to end-pages and title page. With an old damp stain to bottom margins throughout, but getting larger towards end of book. The binding is tight and hinges intact.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Parnassus Book Service (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 25584
- Title
- COUNTRY STORIES
- Author
- Mitford, Mary Russell
- Format/Binding
- Hard cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Philadelphia:Carey, Lea & Blanchard
- Date Published
- 1838
- Keywords
- LITERATURE; FICTION; SHORT STORIES; MARY RUSSELL MITFORD;
Terms of Sale
Parnassus Book Service
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About the Seller
Parnassus Book Service
Biblio member since 2016
Yarmouthport, Massachusetts
About Parnassus Book Service
Ben Muse began selling books from the former Knowles General Store in 1959. Now in our third generation, we are a famiy-run, general book store selling new and old (often rare) books as well as issuing specialty catalogs on a variety of subjects: Americana, Latin America, Maritime, Art, the Orient and a variety of other subjects. If you can't find what you are looking for here on the web, please contact us directly at our Yarmouthport shop -- or better yet stop by to browse and talk. We look forward to seeing you.
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- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- 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....
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...