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The Owl Creek Letters, and Other Correspondence, by W.
by [Prime, William Cowper]
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good-; Bottom eight inch and nearly top half inch of spine destroyed, corners broken, first and last several leaves foxed,
- Seller
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Westmoreland, New Hampshire, United States
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About This Item
New York: Baker & Scribner. Very Good-; Bottom eight inch and nearly top half inch of spine destroyed, . corners broken, first and last several leaves foxed, else a tight . clean unfaded copy.. 1848. First Edition. Hardcover. 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; Publisher's ornately blind stamped dark brown cloth, gilt spine title, 203, [1]p. **Bruns P-144: "his first work." .
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- Bookseller
- HJHurley
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 350
- Title
- The Owl Creek Letters, and Other Correspondence, by W.
- Author
- [Prime, William Cowper]
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good-; Bottom eight inch and nearly top half inch of spine destroyed, corners broken, first and last several leaves foxed,
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Baker & Scribner
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1848
- Keywords
- New England, Fishing, Angling
- Bookseller catalogs
- Angling;
Terms of Sale
HJHurley
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
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- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- Spine
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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...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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
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