LEAVEN FOR DOUGHFACES; OR THREESCORE AND TEN PARABLES TOUCHING ON SLAVERY
by A Former Resident of the South; [Lyman, Darius]
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
-
Rockville, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
Cincinnati: Bangs and Company, 1856. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, 332 pages; G-; Original cloth boards, with tooled covers and gilt letters to spine; Boards show significant wear/chipping to head/tail of spine, moderate wear to corners, several chips to cloth on back board, and light soiling overall; Textblock has moderate plus age-toning and light soiling to edges, a tear to the top corner of the ffep, light occasional foxing to pages interiorly throughout, and three ownership inscriptions (one to ffep, one to sfep, and one to succeeding page); Includes eight illustrations (engraved), including frontispiece. RWO. 1358172. Special Collections.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Second Story Books, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1358172
- Title
- LEAVEN FOR DOUGHFACES; OR THREESCORE AND TEN PARABLES TOUCHING ON SLAVERY
- Author
- A Former Resident of the South; [Lyman, Darius]
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Bangs and Company
- Place of Publication
- Cincinnati
- Date Published
- 1856
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About the Seller
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Rockville, Maryland
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Glossary
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- 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....
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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...