Ultima Thule
by Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Rapid River, Michigan, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1880. First printing; 1880 at title and copyright page. Limited to 2,000 printings of this first edition. Dark brown buckram (cloth) boards, gilt cover and spine titles, design, moderate shelf wear, number at spine. Frontispiece portrait of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; fine tissue guard intact. Deckled pages generally very good; few stamps, labels, numbers. Bind good. Former copy of the Henry Watterson Memorial Collection, Louisville Free Public Library. Scarce, later collection of Longfellow's wondrous words. Includes poems lamenting the passings of Bayard Taylor and R. H. Dana, and the untimely death of the poet, Robert Burns. 61 pages. Insured post.. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Book.
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Details
- Bookseller
- BiblioStax (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 019497
- Title
- Ultima Thule
- Author
- Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Houghton, Mifflin and Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1880
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7&
Terms of Sale
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Rapid River, Michigan
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Buckram
- A plain weave fabric normally made from cotton or linen which is stiffened with starch or other chemicals to cover the book...
- 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...
- 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...
- Copyright page
- The page in a book that describes the lineage of that book, typically including the book's author, publisher, date of...
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- 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...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- 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....