An Island Garden
by Thaxter, Celia
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good with no dust jacket
- Seller
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North Tonawanda, New York, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Houghton, Mifflin & Co.. Good with no dust jacket. 1904. later Edition. Hardcover. Green blindstamped cloth with minor edgewear; bumped spine ends and corners; light soil and small blotches of waterstaining. Foxing and minor waterstaining to text block. Binding tender in a couple places. Text clean. Interior toned and foxed, with offsetting to eps and pastedowns. Not illustrated. Would be an unremarkable copy but for the bookplate of Frances Hubbard Larkin (wife of John D. Larkin and sister of Elbert Hubbard) to front pastedown and her signature to ffep. Not ex-library. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 126 pages .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Old Editions Inc.
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 9304
- Title
- An Island Garden
- Author
- Thaxter, Celia
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good with no dust jacket
- Edition
- later Edition
- Publisher
- Houghton, Mifflin & Co.
- Date Published
- 1904
- Keywords
- Gardening, Horticulture
- Bookseller catalogs
- Horticulture;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Old Editions Inc.
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North Tonawanda, New York
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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....
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
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