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Summerfield: Or Life on a Farm
by Lee, Day Kellogg
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good; Boards heavily worn, scattered foxing and soiling, edges fly-specked, spine cocked.
- Seller
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Selkirk, New York, United States
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About This Item
Auburn, [NY]: Derby and Miller. Good; Boards heavily worn, scattered foxing and soiling, edges . fly-specked, spine cocked.. 1852. First Edition. Hardcover. Original red cloth binding stamped in blind on boards and titled in gilt on spine. Extra engraved title page featuring a bucolic scene of a woman milking a cow while well-dressed man whittles a stick and gazes adoringly at them both. xv, 246pp. Sabin 39722. A novel by the Universalist minister about a young man who leaves his Hudson River home to establish a farm in the lake country of western New York. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .
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- Bookseller
- Old Saratoga Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 56603
- Title
- Summerfield: Or Life on a Farm
- Author
- Lee, Day Kellogg
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good; Boards heavily worn, scattered foxing and soiling, edges fly-specked, spine cocked.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Derby and Miller
- Place of Publication
- Auburn, [NY]
- Date Published
- 1852
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- 1850s Fiction, 19th Century American Literature, Western New York
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;
Terms of Sale
Old Saratoga Books
We are happy to provide a refund within thirty days of the customer's receipt of any book(s) upon return of the book(s) to our shop.
About the Seller
Old Saratoga Books
Biblio member since 2005
Selkirk, New York
About Old Saratoga Books
Old Saratoga Books owners Dan and Rachel Jagareski have been selling books since 1996. After running an open shop for twenty years in the historic village of Schuylerville we now sell books online and at book fairs. We are members of the Independent Online Booksellers Association (IOBA). Our specialties include books about history, science, cooking, children's books, and the arts. Rachel is a graduate of the Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar and has attended Rare Book School in Charlottesville, Virginia.
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- Edges
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- Title Page
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- First Edition
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- Cloth
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- New
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