The American Songster; containing a choice selection of about one hundred and fifty modern and popular songs. . .
by John Kenedy
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair
- Seller
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Newmarket, New Hampshire, United States
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About This Item
New York, New York: Nafis & Cornish, c. 1840. Early printing. Hardcover. Fair. This copy, in difficult condition, is offered as a scarce original edition. A stereotype edition. Words only, published without music. 32mo., 4 1/2" tall, 238 pages (256 pages--when complete); leather binding. This is a fair copy only, with the endpapers, title page, and last 18 pages missing. The leather back strip and cover leather torn, all edges chipped, and the front cover is loose, the paper is relatively white due to high rag content, but the page margins are finger stained, some scattered foxing, and the binding shaken. Includes the Star Spangled Banner, Boys of Ohio, Hurrah for the Bonnets of Blue, The Girl I Left Behind Me, Auld Lang Syne, Home Sweet Home and many others of note. The publisher was determined by comparison of contents to complete editions. This copy would require restoration.
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- Bookseller
- Avenue Victor Hugo Books LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 43865
- Title
- The American Songster; containing a choice selection of about one hundred and fifty modern and popular songs. . .
- Author
- John Kenedy
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Early printing
- Publisher
- Nafis & Cornish
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York
- Date Published
- c. 1840
- Keywords
- American History; Americana; Songs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Americana;
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Avenue Victor Hugo Books specialize in first editions of the best in fiction, history, biography, poetry, drama, and essay. Our catalogue features careful, considered assessments of all of our stock. We are not flippers selling books by the pound. Instead, we try to limit our stock to books in a condition we'd be proud to place on our personal bookshelves.
For nearly 30 years, Avenue Victor Hugo Books was a fixture of Newbury Street in Boston's Back Bay, at one time holding over a quarter-million magazines and 150,000 used books. Awarded "Best Used Bookstore" multiple times by Boston Magazine, the store was a favorite of Boston-area authors and college students alike.
Since relocating to New Hampshire our shop has been featured on WBGH Boston News, WVCB's "Boston Chronicle," NHPR, and WMUR's "New Hampshire Chronicle." Avenue Victor Hugo has also recently been featured in "New Hampshire magazine," "The Boston Globe," UNH's "The New Hampshire," "The New Hampshire Union Leader," and "Foster's Daily Democrat."
Our store is open Fridays & Saturdays from 10am to 6pm in Lee, New Hampshire, less than 10 minutes from the University of New Hampshire.
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- Shaken
- A hardcover in which the text block is loose, but still attached to the binding.
- 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...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
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