A Year's Life
by LOWELL, James Russell
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
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- Seller
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Lebanon, New Jersey, United States
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About This Item
Boston: C.C. Little and J. Brown, 1841. First edition. 8vo. viii, 182 pp., errata slip tipped-in at rear. Publisher's tan boards, printed spine label; near fine, with slight wear and offsetting to covers, in custom green cloth slipcase and chemise First edition in publisher's boards of Lowell's first major publication, preceded only by a Harvard poem and class address. With p. 41, l. 9, ending with an exclamation point (as indicated in errata slip); in some copies the exclamation is not present.PROVENANCE: early ownership signature ("C.L. Inches") in pencil on half-title; Mrs. J. Insley Blair (Blairhame book-label)REFERENCE: BAL 13037
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bull's Head Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 100344
- Title
- A Year's Life
- Author
- LOWELL, James Russell
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- C.C. Little and J. Brown
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1841
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- Errata
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