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THE BIGLOW PAPERS
by LOWELL, JAMES RUSSELL
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Brighton, East Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
LONDON: TRUBNER & CO, 1861 Original Victorian Dark Green blind embossed cloth boards with gilt titles to spine. 185x135mm approx. lxviii + 140 pp. Introduction by Thomas Hughes author of Tom Brown's School-Days. 3rd English Edition reprinted from the latest American Edition. Lowell an American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat was the first Editor of The Atlantic Monthly. VG (Book - 4mm approx nick to cloth at tail of spine - front hinge else no other notable shelf wear or soiling. Previous owner armorial book plate to front paste down and red 6 in ink to front free end paper. Book binders small diamond shaped label to rear paste down. Binding sound). Please see our image of the actual book offered for sale.
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- Bookseller
- booksonlinebrighton
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 119346
- Title
- THE BIGLOW PAPERS
- Author
- LOWELL, JAMES RUSSELL
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 3rd Edition
- Publisher
- TRUBNER & CO
- Place of Publication
- LONDON
- Date Published
- 1861
- Keywords
- Meliboeus-Hipponax The Biglow Papers, New England, The Atlantic Monthly Magazine, James Lowell, Poetry, Satire, Thomas Hughes, Tom Brown's Schooldays, American Literature, Books on line Brighton
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- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- 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....
- Cloth
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- VG
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- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Gilt
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