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Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands (2 Volumes)
by Stowe, Harriet Beecher
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Chico, California, United States
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About This Item
Boston & New York: Phillips, Sampson, and Company & J.C. Derby, 1854. These are Very Good copies of the First Edition. Brown decorative cloth bindings, stamped with floral design and lozenge on the front covers; gilt lettering on the spine. Clean texts; ix, 326 pages; and vii, 432 pages. Volume One has a neatly printed name on the FFEP. Volume Two has a contemporary (1864) signature on its FFEP and a gift notation on the front paste-down. Both volumes are rubbed along the margins and show some fading; gilt on spines is still bright; while the text is bright and very readable, the pages are a bit stiff to turn. Spotting is confined to the endpapers. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. First Edition.. Decorative Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Hammatt Billings.
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- Bookseller
- Quercus Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 003039
- Title
- Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands (2 Volumes)
- Author
- Stowe, Harriet Beecher
- Illustrator
- Hammatt Billings
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition.
- Publisher
- Phillips, Sampson, and Company & J.C. Derby
- Place of Publication
- Boston & New York
- Date Published
- 1854
- Bookseller catalogs
- American Literature;
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
Terms of Sale
Quercus Rare Books
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About the Seller
Quercus Rare Books
Biblio member since 2006
Chico, California
About Quercus Rare Books
Quercus Books seeks out and provides to the discriminating Reader or Collector noteworthy books in the First Edition. Our particular focus is on Modern Literature (roughly from the Second World War to the present) and Irish Authors. We also retain a small stock of non-fiction titles, mostly in the fields of American Western History, American Indians, and the American Civil War. Member of IOBA - the Independent Online Booksellers Association.
Glossary
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- 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....
- Paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- 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...
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
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