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The Two Legacies
by Lowell-Putnam, Georgina
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine
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Venice, Florida, United States
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About This Item
Cambridge, MA: Riverside Press/Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1863. First Edition . Full-Leather. Fine. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Georgina Lowell Putnam (1836-1922) was a niece of James Russell Lowell and the daughter of the wealthy industrialist Francis Cabot Lowell, Jr. of the noted mill town of Lowell, Mass. This presentation copy signed, "CLS from GLP March 1885." The handsome book is also signed "Louise Dervey With happy memories from C L Shaw May 1919." C. L. Shaw probably refers to Carlotta Lowell Shaw (Shaw Lowell), daughter of reformer Josephine Shaw (herself a sister of Civil War hero Robert Gould Shaw and the first woman to hold public office in New York City) and Civil War Major and fatal casualty Charles Russell Lowell (1835-1864). Brown, full-leather with five raised bands on spine. Blind-tooled designs of Maltese crosses on boards and spine. A.E.G. Marbled eps. with gilt dentelle design. 71 Pages. Spine has been expertly rebacked by the late master binder, James Tapley, providing a uniform, tight, attractive copy of an extremely scarce book.
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- Bookseller
- RC Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001178
- Title
- The Two Legacies
- Author
- Lowell-Putnam, Georgina
- Format/Binding
- Full-Leather
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Riverside Press/Houghton, Mifflin and Company
- Place of Publication
- Cambridge, MA
- Date Published
- 1863
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7&
- Keywords
- GEORGINA LOWELL PUTNAM FAMILY JAMES RUSSELL JOSEPHINE SHAW THE TWO LEGACIES Francis Cabot Lowell
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature / Fiction; Signed Books; Fine Printings / Fine Bindings;
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About RC Books
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- 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...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- 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....
- Dentelle
- Borders on the inner edge of a book with a lacy pattern, most often gilt. Popular in France during the 18th century on covers of...
- Raised Band(s)
- Raised bands refer to the ridges that protrude slightly from the spine on leather bound books. The bands are created in the...
- Rebacked
- having had the material covering the spine replaced. ...
- 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...
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