Famous American Authors
by Bolton, Sarah Knowles
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+
- Seller
-
Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co. Very Good+. 1887. First Edition. Hardcover. B&W Portrait plates; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 398 pages; HC 1st edition. Tightly bound and exceptionally neat copy feels and appears generally unread. Green cloth with beveled edges and decorative pictorial title designs to cover and spine very bright in gilt and black. Mild dust soiling top edge and superficial crimping to cloth at spine ends. Illustrated with b&w portrait plates. VG++ to NF .
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Details
- Bookseller
- DogStar Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 42314
- Title
- Famous American Authors
- Author
- Bolton, Sarah Knowles
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Thomas Y. Crowell & Co
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1887
- Bookseller catalogs
- 19th Century Subjects and Studies; Decorative bindings;
Terms of Sale
DogStar Books
15 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 15 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
DogStar Books
Biblio member since 2020
Lancaster, Pennsylvania
About DogStar Books
DogStar Books is an open-shop used and rare book store located in historic Lancaster PA. We have been buying and selling scholarly, antiquarian and better books, images, and paper since 1991. We maintain a large general collection of over 40,000 titles on premises to serve our local book loving clientele. Out of town visitors and buyers are always welcome. Our online inventory at Biblio began in 2020 and we will be increasing our inventory here on a regular basis.
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- 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...
- 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....
- Beveled
- Beveled edges, or beveled boards, describe a technique of binding in which the edges of book boards have been cut into slanted...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- 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...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...