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THE DIVINE TRAGEDY (1st ed)
by Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth 07d
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- VG book, FINE inside. Bright in & out. Tight. Minor edgewear.
- Seller
-
Lyndonville, New York, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Boston: Osgood. VG book, FINE inside. Bright in & out. Tight. Minor edgewear.. 1871. 1st edition. Hardcover. VG book, FINE inside. Beveled green BAL "C" cloth. BAL 12157. Gilt lettered spine, upper board gilt device, in blind on back. . Brown pastedowns. fep with a 1/2" closed tear. Otherwise flawless inside. 1/8" of cover tips worn thru to underlying boards. Spine ends frayed down to the text block level. BAL calls this the small paper edition. BAL states the small & large papers were likely printed simultaneously but BAL also say Longfellow did receive the small paper edition first. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Quiet Friends
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001801
- Title
- THE DIVINE TRAGEDY (1st ed)
- Author
- Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth 07d
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG book, FINE inside. Bright in & out. Tight. Minor edgewear.
- Edition
- 1st edition
- Publisher
- Osgood
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1871
- Keywords
- VG book, FINE inside. Beveled green BAL "C" cloth. BAL 12157. Gilt, lettered spine, upper board gilt device, in blind on back.
- Bookseller catalogs
- poetry;
Terms of Sale
Quiet Friends
Visa, M/C, MO, Check. Shipping is free for a "regular" weight book. But for heavier books, and multi volume sets, we ask for any additional postage. Basically we pay the first $3.
About the Seller
Quiet Friends
Biblio member since 2008
Lyndonville, New York
About Quiet Friends
We sell about 75% internet, 25% book fairs. We have been in business since the early 90's. We pack extremely well. We describe very conservatively and have only a few returns in the 5000 orders we have mailed.
Glossary
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- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
- 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....
- Device
- Especially for older books, a printer's device refers to an identifying mark, also sometimes called a printer's mark, on the...
- Beveled
- Beveled edges, or beveled boards, describe a technique of binding in which the edges of book boards have been cut into slanted...
- BAL
- Bibliography of American Literature (commonly abbreviated as BAL in descriptions) is the quintessential reference work for any...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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....
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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