Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company. Very Good with no dust jacket; Boards rubbed, circular erasure mark on . front boards, front hinge cracked, liftoff on front free endpaper.. 1883. Second Edition; Later Printing. Hardcover. Originally published in 1861. Green beveled cloth with winged urn motif stamped in gilt on front boards and in blind on rear boards. Titles in gilt on spine. Top edges gilt. xi, [2], 14-596pp. Two author prefaces, one dated 1861 and another dated 1883. BAL 8976. Holmes’ unusual novel about a young woman whose destiny is cast in utero when she is “poisoned by the venom of a crotalus” (mom is bitten by a rattlesnake). ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

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Bookseller: Old Saratoga Books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 40011
Title: Elsie Venner: A Romance of Destiny
Author: Holmes, Oliver Wendell
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good with no dust jacket; Boards rubbed, circular erasure mark on front boards, front hinge cracked, liftoff on front free
Edition: Second Edition; Later Printing
Publisher: Houghton, Mifflin and Company
Place of Publication: Boston
Date Published: 1883
Weight: 0.00 lbs
Keywords: 19th Century Literature, BAL
Bookseller catalogs: Fiction;

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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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BAL: Bibliography of American Literature (commonly abbreviated as BAL in descriptions) is the quintessential reference work for any...
Hinge: The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
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...
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,...
Beveled: Beveled edges, or beveled boards, describe a technique of binding in which the edges of book boards have been cut into slanted...
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...
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....
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...