Dialect Ballads
by Adams, Charles Follen
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fine
- Seller
-
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
NY: Harper & Brothers, 1888., 1888. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Small octavo, taupe cloth boards with blind-stamped gilt and colored cover decorations. 136pp. plus 4 pages of ads. Illustrated by 'Boz' with many line sketches. Near fine with discreet previous owner's name on blank preliminary. The most minimal of surface rub at spine tips and very light surface soil on rear panel. A tight and fresh interior and with quite minor flaws described a near fine copy..
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Details
- Bookseller
- Brillig Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 00641
- Title
- Dialect Ballads
- Author
- Adams, Charles Follen
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Publisher
- NY: Harper & Brothers, 1888.
- Date Published
- 1888
- Keywords
- DIALECT, YAWCOB STRAUSS, BALLADS, DUTCH, GERMAN-AMERICAN, PENNSYLVANIA DEUTSCH POETRY
- Bookseller catalogs
- Poetry;
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Brillig Books
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About the Seller
Brillig Books
Biblio member since 2006
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
About Brillig Books
An independent bookseller of uncommon, out-of-print, used and rare books since 1991.
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Spine
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- Octavo
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- Tight
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- Cloth
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- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...