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WOLFERT'S ROOST AND OTHER PAPERS, NOW FIRST COLLECTED.
by Irving, Washington
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+ with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Tucson, Arizona, United States
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About This Item
New York: G. P. Putnam. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1855. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 8vo; 383 pages; Original green cloth, gilt vignette on front cover and gilt title on spine. Very minor wear on edges and spine tips. Engraved title has a touch of foxing from the tissue guard. 1st issue with publisher's address at 12 Park Place, and with the title and frontispiece pasted to stub of excised leaf. .
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- Bookseller
- Circle City Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 19953
- Title
- WOLFERT'S ROOST AND OTHER PAPERS, NOW FIRST COLLECTED.
- Author
- Irving, Washington
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+ with no dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition; First Printing
- Publisher
- G. P. Putnam
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1855
- Keywords
- Literature, Fiction
Terms of Sale
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30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Circle City Books
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Tucson, Arizona
About Circle City Books
Buying and selling used & collectible books in all catagories, with a specialty in Americana and Travel.
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Vignette
- A decorative design or illustration placed at the beginning or end of a ...
- 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....
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- G
- Good describes the average used and worn book that has all pages or leaves present. Any defects must be noted. (as defined by AB...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- 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...
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