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Country Stories
by Mitford, Mary Russell
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fair
- Seller
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East Granby, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
Philadelphia: Carey, Lea & Blanchard, 1838. First American edition, 1838. Twelve short stories. Tan hardcover with pinkish tan cloth spine, 7.5" tall, 212 pages. Covers rubbed and scuffed, paper spine label absent, hinges internally cracked but secure, text block sound but not tight, front free endpaper removed, names in ink at top of title page, no other markings, pages uniformly age-toned and foxed but readily legible.. First US Edition. Hard Cover. Fair. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Resource Books, LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 033994
- Title
- Country Stories
- Author
- Mitford, Mary Russell
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Edition
- First US Edition
- Publisher
- Carey, Lea & Blanchard
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia
- Date Published
- 1838
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7&
- Keywords
- EARLY AMERICAN IMPRINTS STORIES FEMALE AUTHORS WOMEN
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction, Literature, Poetry, Literary History;
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Resource Books, LLC
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About the Seller
Resource Books, LLC
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East Granby, Connecticut
About Resource Books, LLC
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- 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...
- Spine Label
- The paper or leather descriptive tag attached to the spine of the book, most commonly providing the title and author of the...
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- 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....
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
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