Lalla Rookh (The Riverside Classics)
by Moore, Thomas
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair/No Jacket
- Seller
-
Greensboro, North Carolina, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, and Co., 1882. Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. John Tenniel. 12mo. 332 pages. A small book measuring 6 3/4 inches tall by 5 1/4 inches wide. Hardcover in grey decorative cloth. The binding is quite worn and rubbed and shows some damping. Stains visible on the front cover and rear cover at the fore edge of the binding. Inner hinges starting. A druggist's label (likely also a bookseller's ticket) on bottom right of front pastedown. "W. H. Rennels - Druggist - St Louis Mich". The damping on the boards does not seem to affect the text of the book. The text is toned but generally clean. Contains 6 full-page illustrations by Tenniel (including the frontis).
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Details
- Bookseller
- Pages Past Used and Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 051397
- Title
- Lalla Rookh (The Riverside Classics)
- Author
- Moore, Thomas
- Illustrator
- John Tenniel
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Houghton, Mifflin, and Co.
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1882
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾
- Weight
- 1.50 lbs
- Keywords
- 1882; Thomas Moore; Poetry; Poem; John Tenniel; 19th Century.
- Bookseller catalogs
- Poetry;
Terms of Sale
Pages Past Used and Rare Books
14 day return guarantee, with full refund if an item arrives mis-described or damaged. Buyer pays return shipping.
About the Seller
Pages Past Used and Rare Books
Biblio member since 2017
Greensboro, North Carolina
About Pages Past Used and Rare Books
Pages Past is a small used & rare bookshop located a few blocks from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Since 1996 we have been serving the Triad community as well as customers from around the world. We have around 15-20,000 volumes in our shop. We specialize in North Carolina, Virginia, Civil War, Old Leather, Christianity, Eastern and Western Philosophies, and the simply unusual. We very likely have the oldest books in Greensboro; we keep a nice selection of antiquarian volumes and scholarly books.
Glossary
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Fore Edge
- The portion of a book that is opposite the spine. That part of a book which faces the wall when shelved in a traditional...