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The Gift of Affection, a Christmas and New-Year's Present
by SMITH, Virginia (editor)
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Galena, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
New York: Leavitt & Allen Brothers, n.y.. Hardcover. 12mo. Brown cloth with ornate gilt lettering and rules and elaborate black decorations with circular color plate on front board. 264pp. All edges gilt. Tissue-guarded frontispiece, 2 tissue-guarded full-page plate. Good plus. Tight-hinged and overall attractive, though mildly edgeworn (more so at spine head/tail), with preliminary leaves rather foxed. A tight and nice copy of this holiday anthology of miscellaneous sentimental essays and poems by writers now largely forgotten. Undated, though a faint ownership signature on front flyleaf is dated 25 December 1874, thus dating this edition. Quite charming and handleable despite wear.
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- Bookseller
- Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 42782
- Title
- The Gift of Affection, a Christmas and New-Year's Present
- Author
- SMITH, Virginia (editor)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Leavitt & Allen Brothers
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- n.y.
- Bookseller catalogs
- Books; Americana; American Literature;
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Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA
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About the Seller
Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA
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Galena, Illinois
About Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA
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- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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....
- 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...
- 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...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- 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...
- 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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