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Villa Mirafiore
by CROWNINSHIELD, Frederic
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
-
Gloucester City, New Jersey, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1912. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. 110pp. Notable Delaware architect's copy with his decorative bookplate, gutter cracked, spine label darkened and nicked on edges, very good without dustwrapper. A poet of the landscape, Crowninshield, born in Boston in 1845, was an artist in water-color and stained glass, a teacher of art, and an architect. Hew was a former director of the American Academy in Rome for two years and died in Italy in 1918. The book is divided into three parts: In America, In Italy, and In Greece.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 458156
- Title
- Villa Mirafiore
- Author
- CROWNINSHIELD, Frederic
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1912
- Keywords
- Poetry
- Bookseller catalogs
- Poetry;
Terms of Sale
Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
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About the Seller
Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
Biblio member since 2005
Gloucester City, New Jersey
About Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc., founded in 1985, specializes in first editions of 20th Century American and English fiction. Our inventory of over 75,000 first editions includes: African-American literature & history, Mysteries, Detective Fiction, Drama, Books into Film and Sports books. We routinely issue extensively illustrated color catalogs, available by subscription. We are members of the Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America (ABAA)and the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers (ILAB). Tom Congalton, founder of Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc., actively promotes the ethics and standards of these professional organizations and served as President of the ABAA from 2000 to 2002.
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- Cracked
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- The paper or leather descriptive tag attached to the spine of the book, most commonly providing the title and author of the...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Gutter
- The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
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