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Among the Isles of Shoals
by Thaxter, Celia
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good Plus
- Seller
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Newburyport, Massachusetts, United States
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About This Item
Boston: James R. Osgood & Co., 1873 Hard cover, 12mo, in green cloth, stamped in blind to boards and spine, with titles blocked in gold, text block with red stained edges, navy blue end papers, frontispiece plus three additional illustrations, 184pp., First Edition. Incudes a pithy handwrtten note to her publishers tipped in to the ffep.: "Dear Editors, If you wish to keep this poem please send check for it at once in enclosed envelope, if not, kindly ..at once..enclose it back to me, obliged, yours truly, C. Thaxter." CONDITION: Very Good Plus. Shows some exterior rubbing, along the joints, head and tale of spine and tips, one of which is bumped. Inside, the ffep has been reglued, but otherwise looks pristine. A small printed old bookstore label is on gutter edge of front endpaper. BAL 19848.. Signed Note to "Editors" tipped in demanding payment by return post. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good Plus.
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- Bookseller
- Dark and Stormy Night Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 9133
- Title
- Among the Isles of Shoals
- Author
- Thaxter, Celia
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Plus
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- James R. Osgood & Co.
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1873
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Newburyport, Massachusetts
About Dark and Stormy Night Books
Now entering our eighteenth year, Dark and Stormy Night Books is an online bookstore carrying Rare, Antiquarian and other interesting finds. Alasdair and Alexandra Johnson, Proprietors. Alasdair, from Edinburgh, Scotland has a colorful heritage including the salvage of shipwrecks off the English coast, and transportation of an eighteenth-century revolutionary relative to Australia. When not swashbuckling through the world of electronics and other gizmos as a lad, he scared himself silly with science-fiction, ghost stories and gothic novels. His partner, Alexandra, is a third-generation book dealer, whose family had the smallest of small-press workshops in the family barn. She is a graduate in history and art history from Bowdoin College, with a particular interest in the Far East and the China trade, the Pre-Raphaelite brotherhood, and the British Arts & Crafts Movement. She also spent some years working for a nationally known early-American antiques dealer. They make their home in historic Newburyport, on the Massachusetts coast. Visit our website: www.darkandstormynightbooks.com
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- Gutter
- The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
- Tipped In
- Tipped In is used to describe something which has been glued into a book. Tipped-in items can include photos, book plates,...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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....
- 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...
- 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...
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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...
- BAL
- Bibliography of American Literature (commonly abbreviated as BAL in descriptions) is the quintessential reference work for any...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
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