THE POETICAL WORKS
by James Russell Lowell
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good +
- Seller
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Blue Hill, Maine, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1887. Hardcover. Very Good +. 422 p. Frontis illustration with tissue. 5 1/4 x 7 3/4 in. Dark green cloth binding with beveled boards, gilt lettering on spine, top edges of text block gilt, black end papers. Condition of the book is VERY GOOD+: light wear to covers and spines, spine ends a bit more worn, edges of text block darkened, book plate of David B. Ogden on inside of front covers, pages clean, bindings very tight.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Andre Strong Bookseller (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2834
- Title
- THE POETICAL WORKS
- Author
- James Russell Lowell
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good +
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1887
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About the Seller
Andre Strong Bookseller
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Blue Hill, Maine
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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...
- 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....
- Beveled
- Beveled edges, or beveled boards, describe a technique of binding in which the edges of book boards have been cut into slanted...
- 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...
- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...