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Idyls and Pastorals
by Thaxter, Celia
- Used
- poor
- Condition
- Poor
- Seller
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Dover, New Hampshire, United States
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About This Item
Boston: D. Lothrop and Company, 1886. Leather. Poor. Soft brown decorative leather (with cotton backing), over cardboard covers. 59 pp. 13 full page illustrations plus 2 vignettes, all present as called for in the contents. Title page mentions 24 illustrations, but that may have been for the limited folio edition. A collection of poetry by Celia Thaxter accompanied by illustrations from Childe Hassam, Edmund H, Garrett, George Foster Barnes, Henry Bacon and others. POOR condition. Leather COMPLETELY torn off from the front cover and loose, with heavy chipping, tearing and loss along its extremities, including a 2 by 3 inch rectangle threatening to detach at the upper right corner. Heavy chipping and loss of leather at the head and tail of the spine. General toning, minor soiling and staining to the covers. Heavy scuffs at the rear corners and edges. Previous owner's signature present. Minor toning to the text block. Text block and cover solid.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Mare Booksellers
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 012247
- Title
- Idyls and Pastorals
- Author
- Thaxter, Celia
- Format/Binding
- Leather
- Book Condition
- Used - Poor
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- D. Lothrop and Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1886
- Keywords
- Noisbn
- Bookseller catalogs
- Poetry;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Mare Booksellers
Biblio member since 2005
Dover, New Hampshire
About Mare Booksellers
Mare Booksellers specializes in punk fanzines, with interests in underground newspapers and art. Who are we kidding? We really like anything with printed or handwritten letters, whether paper, books, etc. (Okay, letters and words aren't really that important either).
Glossary
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- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Poor
- A book with significant wear and faults. A poor condition book is still a reading copy with the full text still readable. Any...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Folio
- A folio usually indicates a large book size of 15" in height or larger when used in the context of a book description. Further,...
- 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....
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