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THE EMERSON BIRTHDAY-BOOK
by Emerson, Ralph Waldo
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Binding is quite worn at tips of spine and corners, rear cover unevenly rubbed, few pages of text soiled; a good copy
- Seller
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HACKETTSTOWN, New Jersey, United States
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About This Item
Boston/ Cambridge: Houghton, Mifflin and Company/ The Riverside Press, 1881. First edition, clothbound issue. iii, 398pp (followed by publisher's blank pages for owner's birthday notes), illustrated. Binding is quite worn at tips of spine and corners, rear cover unevenly rubbed, few pages of text soiled; a good copy. First edition, clothbound issue. iii, 398pp (followed by publisher's blank pages for owner's birthday notes), illustrated. Owner's early ink signature on second front flyleaf: "Mabel Fuller/ July 1881" [possibly in the hand of author Mabel Fuller Blodgett, who was born Mabel Louise Fuller, in Bangor, Maine in 1869; her first book, 'The Aspen Shade: A Romance,' was published in 1889, followed by a number of children's books].
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Details
- Bookseller
- The Old Mill Bookshop
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 334743
- Title
- THE EMERSON BIRTHDAY-BOOK
- Author
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo
- Format/Binding
- Iii, 398pp (followed by publisher's blank pages for owner's birthday notes), illustrated
- Book Condition
- Used - Binding is quite worn at tips of spine and corners, rear cover unevenly rubbed, few pages of text soiled; a good copy
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition, clothbound issue
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Houghton, Mifflin and Company/ The Riverside Press
- Place of Publication
- Boston/ Cambridge
- Date Published
- 1881
- Keywords
- American
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Founded in 1978 by James Cummins, the firm has grown to include two New Jersey locations as well as the main store at 699 Madison Avenue. The Madison avenue store is an oasis for book-lovers, a quiet and pleasantly furnished book room with a carefully chosen, expertly catalogued and broad-based selection of fine and rare books, autographs, manuscripts, and works of art.
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