Ultima Thule
by Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fair
- Seller
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Rapid River, Michigan, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1880. First printing; 1880 at title and copyright page. Limited to 2,000 printings. Dark brown buckram (cloth) boards, gilt cover and spine titles, design, some corner, edge wear; spine mended w/cloth adhesive. Frontispiece portrait of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; fine tissue guard intact. Deckled pages fine; clean. Bind good; hinges intact. Near fine interior w/some wear to exterior. Scarce original 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. Fair. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Book.
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Details
- Bookseller
- BiblioStax
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 019531
- Title
- Ultima Thule
- Author
- Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- 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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About the Seller
BiblioStax
Biblio member since 2005
Rapid River, Michigan
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Glossary
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- 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....
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Buckram
- A plain weave fabric normally made from cotton or linen which is stiffened with starch or other chemicals to cover the book...
- 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...
- 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...
- Copyright page
- The page in a book that describes the lineage of that book, typically including the book's author, publisher, date of...
- 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...
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