THE MAHOGANY TREE
by Thackeray, William Makepeace
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
-
Fairfield, New Jersey, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Boston: Samuel E. Cassino. Very Good. 1887. First Edition Thus; '. Hardcover. Original publisher's cloth with bright gilt lettering and thin wood panel inlaid to front. Top edge gilt. Tipped-in frontis-portrait on tissue, wood-cut engravings & vignettes. Printed on heavy stock paper. Text is tight & intact. Corners & spine ends lightly rubbed. Light scattered foxing. Poetry. ; Engravings; Folio 13" - 23" tall; Unpaginated pages .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Nick Bikoff, Bookseller (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 17604
- Title
- THE MAHOGANY TREE
- Author
- Thackeray, William Makepeace
- Illustrator
- Frank T. Merrill
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition Thus; '
- Publisher
- Samuel E. Cassino
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1887
- Keywords
- Poetry
- Bookseller catalogs
- Art; Poetry;
Terms of Sale
Nick Bikoff, Bookseller
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About the Seller
Nick Bikoff, Bookseller
Biblio member since 2005
Fairfield, New Jersey
About Nick Bikoff, Bookseller
Nick Bikoff and his wife Fran have been buying and selling quality books and ephemera since 1989 when they attended the "Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar" at the University of Denver. They offer a broad based selection of used, rare, and out-of-print stock ranging from the sixteenth to the twentieth century.
Glossary
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- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- 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,...
- 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....