Graham's Illustrated magazine; Volume L (50) ; January to June, 1857. (including February, March, April, May); with Perils of the Overland Route to California; Edgar and Elfrida; The Fortune Hunters (Crowe); Mrs. Peter Dame (Augusta) etc
by Charles G. Leland (editor); M.S. Whitaker, Alice Gray, Louisa Stuart Costello, Wirt Sikes, Clara Augusta, Mary A. Denison, John G. Saxe, Emma Alice Browne, Violet Hawthorne, Mrs. Crowe, et al;
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Newmarket, New Hampshire, United States
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About This Item
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Louis A. Godey, 1857. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Six individual issues bound in one volume without monthly covers and ads. Octavo, 9 1/2" tall, vi + 574 pages with many intertextual black and white illustrations + 6 monthly hand-colored plates, 6 black and white steel plates, three-quarter leather. A good copy overall, cover leather worn through to boards at fore-corner tips, leather back strip rubbed at hinge fold and starting to separate, hinges secure but cracked, internal binding is solid, endpapers lightly foxed, internal pages generally clean and lightly yellowed, but with scattered foxing mostly at the margins and gutters, most tissue guards present.
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- Bookseller
- Avenue Victor Hugo Books LLC (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 45269
- Title
- Graham's Illustrated magazine; Volume L (50) ; January to June, 1857. (including February, March, April, May); with Perils of the Overland Route to California; Edgar and Elfrida; The Fortune Hunters (Crowe); Mrs. Peter Dame (Augusta) etc
- Author
- Charles G. Leland (editor); M.S. Whitaker, Alice Gray, Louisa Stuart Costello, Wirt Sikes, Clara Augusta, Mary A. Denison, John G. Saxe, Emma Alice Browne, Violet Hawthorne, Mrs. Crowe, et al;
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Louis A. Godey
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Date Published
- 1857
- Keywords
- 19th (Nineteenth) Century, fashion, culture, etiquette, fiction,; Magazine; Bound; Periodical; Fashion
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Avenue Victor Hugo Books specialize in first editions of the best in fiction, history, biography, poetry, drama, and essay. Our catalogue features careful, considered assessments of all of our stock. We are not flippers selling books by the pound. Instead, we try to limit our stock to books in a condition we'd be proud to place on our personal bookshelves.
For nearly 30 years, Avenue Victor Hugo Books was a fixture of Newbury Street in Boston's Back Bay, at one time holding over a quarter-million magazines and 150,000 used books. Awarded "Best Used Bookstore" multiple times by Boston Magazine, the store was a favorite of Boston-area authors and college students alike.
Since relocating to New Hampshire our shop has been featured on WBGH Boston News, WVCB's "Boston Chronicle," NHPR, and WMUR's "New Hampshire Chronicle." Avenue Victor Hugo has also recently been featured in "New Hampshire magazine," "The Boston Globe," UNH's "The New Hampshire," "The New Hampshire Union Leader," and "Foster's Daily Democrat."
Our store is open Fridays & Saturdays from 10am to 6pm in Lee, New Hampshire, less than 10 minutes from the University of New Hampshire.
Glossary
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- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- 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...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...