James and Lucretia Mott: Life and Letters
by Hallowell, Anna Davis, Editor
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
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Rochester, New York, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1884. Hardcover. Fair/No Dust Jacket. 5 x 8 in. FAIR/ NO DUST JACKET. Former library book. 565 p.,gilt edges on pages, index, black and white frontispiece, other portraits in book. Text is clean and unmarked except for library stamp on ffe, pencil inscription on next page, bookplate on following page saying gift of Henry Steele Commager to the library. and another library stamp on back of title page. Spine is broken and many pages are not attached, but they are all there. Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. The covers are worn, corners bumped, spine is cracked and quite worn at edges.
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- Bookseller
- RPL Library Store
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- ER000067
- Title
- James and Lucretia Mott: Life and Letters
- Author
- Hallowell, Anna Davis, Editor
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1884
- Size
- 5 x 8 in
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Primary Source Material Biography Womens Rights History
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Glossary
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- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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,...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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....
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