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The Habitant
by Drummond, William Henry
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Dustjacket
- Seller
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Stanley, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York / London: G. P. Putnam's, 1897. Book. Illus. by Frederick Simpson Coburn, Illustrator. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition.. New York / London: G. P. Putnam's, 1897. First Edition . Very Good/No Dust jacket. Frederick Simpson Coburn, Illustrator. Clean green clothboards with unchipped gold lettering and gold portrait of a pipe-smoking man on cover, gold lettering on spine (somewhat dimmed). Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Some fraying to top and bottom spine edges. Pages and edges are clean; tasteful previous owner bookplate on front free endpaper which has caused some browning to preliminaries from offset reaction. Frontis illustration with clean tissue guard. Illustrations by Frederick Simpson Coburn; Introduction by Louis Frechette. 137 pp..
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- Bookseller
- Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 020741
- Title
- The Habitant
- Author
- Drummond, William Henry
- Illustrator
- Frederick Simpson Coburn, Illustrator
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Dustjacket
- Edition
- First Edition.
- Publisher
- G. P. Putnam's
- Place of Publication
- New York / London
- Date Published
- 1897
- Keywords
- CANADIAN POETRY, POEMS, CANADA, ANTIQUARIAN, FIRST EDITION
- Bookseller catalogs
- Antiquarian; Poetry; Canada;
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Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
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- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- Offset
- A technique of printing where the inked image or text is ...
- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
- 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....
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