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Our Old Home, and English Note-Books
by Hawthorne, Nathaniel
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Newport, Washington, United States
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About This Item
New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Co, 1884. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Type: Hard Back Hardcover Book in Good Condition. This is Volume XIII of the twenty-four volume Wayside Edition of the Complete Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne, with Introductory Notes by George Parsons Lathrop. Vol 1 of Our Old Home, and English Note-Books. Burgundy cloth, very clean and unmarked, spine lightly sunned and lettering is not visible; corners scuffed, spine ends frayed. Inner hinge cracked with loose leafs from pp 98-123. Frontis: illustration of "A London Suburb", tissue protected. Title page with illustration of the Old Home. Many pages remain uncut on the top edge and a few have short tear where it looks like someone tried to open the top edge without cutting properly. All edges rough cut. Pages are lightly age-toned, very clean and unmarked. A very nice old volume. No old book odor. 230 pages. 7.75 x 5.25 inches. Publisher: New York. Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1884.
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- Bookseller
- The Parnassus BookShop
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 021118
- Title
- Our Old Home, and English Note-Books
- Author
- Hawthorne, Nathaniel
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Houghton, Mifflin and Co
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1884
- Size
- 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" t
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- CLASSIC LITERATURE AMERICAN LITERATURE-19TH CENTURY
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction. Classics;
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