Evangeline
by Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Poplar Bluff, Missouri, United States
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About This Item
Philadelphia: Henry Altemus No date anywhere in book, but research gave it at 1895. Beautiful green quarter-bound cloth on spine with gilt imprinting and illustration. Front and back cover is a beautiful off-white cloth with intertwined flowers and leaves. The corners and edges of the front and back have been bumped and rubbed through the cloth. The spine head and heel have been bumped and starting to fray. Staining/soiling on the front and back covers. The inside has two previous owner's signatures on the flyleaf and a small amount of writing on the front pastedown. The 149 pages are clean, crisp, unmarked and uncreased, except for a crease at the bottom right-hand corner of page 115. A good book from a non-smoking household. Pictures available upon request.We ship daily.. Quarter-Bound. Good/No Jacket. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Lots of Love Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 011012
- Title
- Evangeline
- Author
- Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Publisher
- Henry Altemus
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia
- Keywords
- Poetry, Poem
- Bookseller catalogs
- Poetry;
Terms of Sale
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- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Heel
- The lower most portion of the spine when the book is standing vertically.
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- Crisp
- A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...
- 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...
- 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...
- Cloth
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