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Forest Pictures in the Adirondacks
by Hows, John A
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good+/No DJ
- Seller
-
Southampton, Massachusetts, United States
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About This Item
New York: James G. Gregory, 1865. Edition Not Specified. Good+/No DJ. 12mo = 7-9". n/a. Printing Not Spec. Brown leather bound hard covers with elaborate gilt lettering front and back, embossed decoration, raised bands on spine. Considerable wear along edges and spine, 3/4inch split at top spine edge. Beautiful engraved plates by Messrs. Bobbett & Hooper with each poem. Sixteen original poems by Alfred B. Street and illustrated plates. All edges gilt, pages lightly browned, very clean except endpages have some staining/smudging, previous owner's name in pencil on ffep. Front hinge starting but binding still very strong.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Heritage Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- NF32584
- Title
- Forest Pictures in the Adirondacks
- Author
- Hows, John A
- Illustrator
- n/a
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+
- Jacket Condition
- No DJ
- Edition
- Edition Not Specified
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- James G. Gregory
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1865
- Pages
- 63pp
- Size
- 12mo = 7-9"
- Keywords
- poetry
- Bookseller catalogs
- Nature;
Terms of Sale
Heritage Books
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives not as described or damaged.
About the Seller
Heritage Books
Biblio member since 2008
Southampton, Massachusetts
About Heritage Books
Our bookshop is located in the historic town library building of Southampton, Massachusetts. Southampton lies within the Pioneer Valley of Western Massachusetts with a view of Pomeroy Mountain to the West and Mt. Tom to the North. It is situated between the artistic, vibrant communities of Easthampton and Northampton and the city of Westfield. We have a collection of over 40,000 books with many more waiting to be unboxed and squeezed onto our shelves. The large double-door front entrance will lead you to our main floor where we hold a wide range of fiction and non-fiction titles, as well as a good selection of scarce and rare editions. The original fireplace is surrounded by hardbacks and you can peer out the original nine-foot windows. Take the staircase to the basement and you will find our large children's section and many shelves full of paperbacks. Our physical address is 225 College Highway/Route 10. Our mailing address is 241 College Highway & Clark St. P.O. Box 100 Southampton, MA 01073. The store hours indicated are by appointment only Monday through Friday, and Saturday and Sunday you can stop in. Please call to schedule an appointment if you can't make it to the store on the weekends from 11 am to 3 pm.
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- 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....
- Raised Band(s)
- Raised bands refer to the ridges that protrude slightly from the spine on leather bound books. The bands are created in 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...
- G
- Good describes the average used and worn book that has all pages or leaves present. Any defects must be noted. (as defined by AB...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
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