Letters of Henry Adams (1858-1891)
by Ford, Worthington Chauncey, Editor
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Amherst,, Massachusetts, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Houghton Mifflin/Riverside Press, 1930. Blue cloth binding, top edge gilt, frontis sketch of Adams. 552pp. Light wear, tips slightly worn, spine gilt mostly faded but readalbe. Signature of Charles Ben Hirschfeld dated 1933 on front endpaper. Hirschfeld was a John Hopkins graduate (B.A., Ph.D.) who was a professor at Richmond College of City University of New York. Phtoos on request. Hardcover. Good. Large Octavo.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Valley Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 085804
- Title
- Letters of Henry Adams (1858-1891)
- Author
- Ford, Worthington Chauncey, Editor
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin/Riverside Press
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1930
- Size
- Large Octavo
- Keywords
- Henry Adams Literary Correspondence
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About the Seller
Valley Books
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Amherst,, Massachusetts
About Valley Books
After 34 years selling used and old books in downtown Amherst, we are now an online only seller as of July 2009. We have approximately 12,500 titles in most subjects and all our inventory is listed online. Our specialties include scholarly books in political science, social science, philosophy, science and natural history, poetry, European history, Asian and Far Eastern history, Asian and American art and Literary Criticism, as well as several other subjects, scholarly, antiquarian and collectible.
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Top Edge Gilt
- Top edge gilt refers to the practice of applying gold or a gold-like finish to the top of the text block (the edges the pages...
- 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....
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...