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The Golden Legend (with autograph letter from Longfellow
by Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very good
- Seller
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Jupiter , Florida, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1851. First Edition, Second Printing. Hardcover. Very good. 8vo (17 x 10 cm). 326 pp. Title page M DCCC LVI. Covers half-bound with brown leather and marbled paper. Corners bumped, wear to edges. With bookplate of actress Elsie Leslie Lyde, and "Elsie L. Winter" stamped in gilt on upper cover. Tipped in is an original letter from Henry Longfellow to critic and author William Winter, father of Elsie's husband,. Elsie Leslie (August 14, 1881 - October 31, 1966) was America's first child star and the highest paid and most popular child actress of her era. BAL 12102.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Liberty Book Store ABAA FABA IOBA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2336
- Title
- The Golden Legend (with autograph letter from Longfellow
- Author
- Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, Second Printing
- Publisher
- Ticknor and Fields
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1851
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
Terms of Sale
Liberty Book Store ABAA FABA IOBA
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About the Seller
Liberty Book Store ABAA FABA IOBA
Biblio member since 2012
Jupiter , Florida
About Liberty Book Store ABAA FABA IOBA
Liberty Book Store, ABAA, FABA, IOBA, with offices in Jupiter Florida, is an online (and by appointment) antiquarian bookstore that BUYS and SELLS RARE and INTERESTING BOOKS. Our primary interests are the American Antebellum period, Association Copies, Automotive, Books With A Story, Floridiana, Maritime History, RR Donnelley bindings, and books of exceptional beauty or scarcity.
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- Tipped In
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- Marbled Paper
- Decorative colored paper that imitates marble with a veined, mottled, or swirling pattern. Commonly used as the end papers or...
- 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...
- 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...
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