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PAGES AND PICTURES, FROM THE WRITINGS OF JAMES FENIMORE COOPER
by COOPER, SUSAN FENIMORE
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Edges and Corners Worn./No Dust Jacket
- Seller
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Prairie Village, Kansas, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: W.A. Townsend and Company, 1861. Professionally rebacked with original spine laid-down, hinges repaired. Blind-stamped cover and spine designs, lettering in gilt. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Most pages toned, some foxing occurring, usually peripherally. A large and heavy book of 400 pages. Illustrated throughout with forty steel engravings, seven wood engravings, and 120 head and tail vignettes, many by F.O.C. Darley. Illustrated title-page and frontispiece portrait of Cooper. The full-page illustrations are protected by tissue-guards. A nicely-repaired and preserved tribute to the author by his daughter. See photos. . First Edition. Full Brown Leather. Edges and Corners Worn./No Dust Jacket. Small Thick Quarto.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Glenn Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 015686
- Title
- PAGES AND PICTURES, FROM THE WRITINGS OF JAMES FENIMORE COOPER
- Author
- COOPER, SUSAN FENIMORE
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Edges and Corners Worn.
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- W.A. Townsend and Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1861
- Size
- Small Thick Quarto
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Cooper, Illustrations, American Literature
Terms of Sale
Glenn Books
All books are subject to prior sale. Books are guaranteed as described and may be returned to us within 10 days with immediate notice of intent to return the item.
About the Seller
Glenn Books
Biblio member since 2005
Prairie Village, Kansas
About Glenn Books
We are an antiquarian bookshop established in 1933. We are members of ABAA and ILAB.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Quarto
- The term quarto is used to describe a page or book size. A printed sheet is made with four pages of text on each side, and the...
- 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...
- 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....
- 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...
- Rebacked
- having had the material covering the spine replaced. ...
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
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