AN ODE: Pronounced Before the Inhabitants of Boston, September the Seventeenth, 1830, At the Centennial Celebration of the Settlement of the City
by Sprague, Charles
- Used
- good
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Cadyville, New York, United States
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About This Item
Boston: John H. Eastburn, City Printer, 1830.. 1830.. Good. - Octavo, softcover bound in printed tan wrappers. The wraps are foxed & heavily chipped around the edges with some small pieces out. The spine is perished. There is a contemporary inscription along the top edge of the front wrap. 22 pages. There is offsetting to the title page . There is occasional foxing & some light creasing to the pages. There is darkening & chipping to the edges of a few pages. Good. <p>First edition.
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- Bookseller
- Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd.
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 17697
- Title
- AN ODE: Pronounced Before the Inhabitants of Boston, September the Seventeenth, 1830, At the Centennial Celebration of the Settlement of the City
- Author
- Sprague, Charles
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Boston: John H. Eastburn, City Printer, 1830.
- Date Published
- 1830.
- Keywords
- AMERICANA; BOSTON; CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION; POETRY; VERSE; AN ODE: Pronounced Before the Inhabitants of Boston, September the Seventeenth, 1830, At the Centennial Celebration of the Settlement of the City; CHARLES SPRAGUE; NINETEENTH CENTURY; 19TH CENTURY;
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Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd.
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Cadyville, New York
About Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd.
Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd. (incorporated 1989) is a general antiquarian book store which buys and sells collections and individual items of significance. Booksellers Ric Zank and Daniel Meunier each bring to the business over 18 years of experience in seeking out and offering for sale unusual, uncommon and rare books, autographs, and ephemera in all fields. Our office is open 7 days a week from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and frequently later. An answering machine will take your message after hours and when we are out of the office.
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- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Wrappers
- The paper covering on the outside of a paperback. Also see the entry for pictorial wraps, color illustrated coverings for...
- 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...
- 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....
- 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...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
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