TALES OF A WAYSIDE INN [SIGNED]
by Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
-
CARLSBAD , California, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1863. First Edition, later state (with this volume priced in the ads at rear). Original pebbled green cloth with gilt stamped spine. Top edge gilt. Frontispiece engraving with tissue-guard of Old Bull playing violin in The Wayside Inn. LONGFELLOW'S INKED INSCRIPTION signed "Yours truly, Henry W. Longfellow" on tipped-in paper slip. Neat contemporary inscription dated 1863. One of Longfellow's best remembered books containg his poem "The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere." Some spotting to frontis and tissue-guard else a clean and very good copy. . Signed. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good.
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Details
- Bookseller
- RON RAMSWICK BOOKS, IOBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 20806
- Title
- TALES OF A WAYSIDE INN [SIGNED]
- Author
- Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Ticknor & Fields
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1863
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RON RAMSWICK BOOKS, IOBA
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CARLSBAD , California
About RON RAMSWICK BOOKS, IOBA
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- 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....
- Later State
- used in book collecting to refer to a book from a later run of a first edition, generally distinguished by a change in some part...
- Pebbled
- Pebbled cloth or leather describes the covering of a hardcover book with a decorative texture of repeated small raised bumps,...
- First Edition
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- Top Edge Gilt
- Top edge gilt refers to the practice of applying gold or a gold-like finish to the top of the text block (the edges the pages...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...