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Hypatia or New Foes with an Old Face (In Two Volumes) - Mary Corning Winslow Black's Set
by KINGSLEY, Charles
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Seattle, Washington, United States
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About This Item
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1890. Reprint. Hardcover. Very Good. 16mo. Pp. xxiv, 284; 329. Three-quarter bound in dark red cloth and gold and dark green floral-pattern printed cloth, titles and decorations stamped in gilt on the spines, gilt tops. Bookplate of Mary Corning Winslow, Wood Cliff, on the Hudson. The paste from the bookplate has bled through, and caused offsetting on opposing page. Spine ends a tad crimped, edges rubbed, very light foxing and offsetting to endpapers, leaves crisp and bright. Kingsley (1819 - 1875) was a parish priest, Chaplain to the Queen, tutor to the Prince of Wales, professor of History at Cambridge, novelist, Christian Socialist, pamphleteer, etc. Today he's perhaps best known for Westward Ho! and the perennial seller Water Babies. But this Victorian Christian apologia, a fictionalized life of the pagan philosopher, was long regarded as his best work.
Former owner Mary Corning Winslow Black (b. 1873) was a daughter of businessman and industrialist John Flack Winslow, owner of the ironclad USS Monitor and president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY. Her husband, Clarence, was president of Cadillac Motor Company.
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- Bookseller
- Long Brothers Fine and Rare Books, ABAA
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 6897
- Title
- Hypatia or New Foes with an Old Face (In Two Volumes) - Mary Corning Winslow Black's Set
- Author
- KINGSLEY, Charles
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Reprint
- Publisher
- Frederick A. Stokes Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1890
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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Seattle, Washington
About Long Brothers Fine and Rare Books, ABAA
Long Brothers Fine and Rare Books was established in 1996 as a natural progression of proprietor Jeffrey Long's historical and bibliophilic interests. We are located in West Seattle and can be visited by appointment only.
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- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Cloth
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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...
- 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....
- 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...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- 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...
- 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...
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