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The Divine Tragedy
by Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good with no dust jacket; Boards lightly worn, edges foxed.
- Seller
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Selkirk, New York, United States
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About This Item
Boston: James R. Osgood and Company. Very Good with no dust jacket; Boards lightly worn, edges foxed.. 1872. First Edition. Hardcover. Beveled green cloth with gilt stamped front boards and spine. Rear boards stamped in blind. Brown coated endpapers. Iv, 150pp. Inscribed on the front free endpaper: “Mr. And Mrs. George F. Winch, With the best wishes of their friend William Orne White, Keene, N. H. November 6, 1873” William Orne White was a Unitarian pastor and father of prolific author Eliza Orne White, and was a student of Longfellow’s when he studied at Harvard. BAL 12157, small paper format. A lengthy play featuring scenes from the life of Christ. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Old Saratoga Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 38744
- Title
- The Divine Tragedy
- Author
- Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good with no dust jacket; Boards lightly worn, edges foxed.
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- James R. Osgood and Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1872
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- BAL, 19th Century Literature
- Bookseller catalogs
- Religion;
Terms of Sale
Old Saratoga Books
We are happy to provide a refund within thirty days of the customer's receipt of any book(s) upon return of the book(s) to our shop.
About the Seller
Old Saratoga Books
Biblio member since 2005
Selkirk, New York
About Old Saratoga Books
Old Saratoga Books owners Dan and Rachel Jagareski have been selling books since 1996. After running an open shop for twenty years in the historic village of Schuylerville we now sell books online and at book fairs. We are members of the Independent Online Booksellers Association (IOBA). Our specialties include books about history, science, cooking, children's books, and the arts. Rachel is a graduate of the Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar and has attended Rare Book School in Charlottesville, Virginia.
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- Spine
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- Gilt
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- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- 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...
- Beveled
- Beveled edges, or beveled boards, describe a technique of binding in which the edges of book boards have been cut into slanted...
- Inscribed
- When a book is described as being inscribed, it indicates that a short note written by the author or a previous owner has been...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- 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...
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