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Li'l' Gal (Inscribed with Original Poem and Signed by Author)
by Dunbar, Paul Laurence
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Good-/No dustjacket as issued.
- Seller
-
Madison, Indiana, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1904. First Edition. Signed. Hardcover. Octavo. 8.75 x 5.75 inches. 123 pp (unpaginated). Good-. No dust jacket as issued. Inscribed with original poem and signed by author on front free endpaper. Original publisher's olive-green cloth binding. Floral decorations stamped on front board and spine. Lettered in gilt. Top edge gilt. Foredge deckled. Sewn binding. Printed on heavy, coated paper. Illustrated with 67 black and white photographs by Leigh Richmond Miner of the Hampton Institute Camera Club. Each page bordered with art nouveau floral decorations in dusty peach by Margaret Armstrong. Case has edge, shelf, and corner rubbing. Corners bumped. Circular water stain in center of upper board. Bump to foot of text block fore edge. Case and endpapers separated from text block. Text block cracked and shaken. Stitching tender. Endpapers browned. Grubby finger soiling to many pages. All elements present. Inscription in Dunbar's hand (see photo) is a short seasonal poem not found in The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar (New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1915). BAL 4951.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Village Lights Bookstore, ABAA/ILAB
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 0000017
- Title
- Li'l' Gal (Inscribed with Original Poem and Signed by Author)
- Author
- Dunbar, Paul Laurence
- Illustrator
- Miner, Leigh Richmond / Armstrong, Margaret
- Format/Binding
- Original publisher's olive-green cloth over boards
- Book Condition
- Used - Good-
- Jacket Condition
- No dustjacket as issued.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Dodd, Mead and Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1904
- Pages
- 123
- Size
- 8vo
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- signed, inscribed, original poem
- Bookseller catalogs
- Poetry;
Terms of Sale
Village Lights Bookstore, ABAA/ILAB
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About the Seller
Village Lights Bookstore, ABAA/ILAB
Biblio member since 2008
Madison, Indiana
About Village Lights Bookstore, ABAA/ILAB
Village Lights Bookstore opened as a brick-and-mortar shop in 2008. We are a "mom & pop" business, and we live in the same building. We are members of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America, the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers, the American Booksellers Association, and the Great Lakes Independent Booksellers Association. We offer a modest, but diverse, selection of rare, collectible, and antiquarian items, as well as select higher quality new books. We carefully grade our books in accordance with IOBA Book Condition Definitions (https://www.ioba.org/conditions-definitions), describe them using standard ABAA terminology (https://www.abaa.org/glossary), and painstakingly package them to prevent damage in transit. We value direct communication, so please feel free to call if you have questions about our listings or to confirm that an item is still on hand. And consider visiting us on Main Street in the heart of downtown Madison, Indiana, the country's largest contiguous National Historic Landmark District, and a Designated Indiana Cultural District, on the banks of the beautiful Ohio River.
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...
- Top Edge Gilt
- Top edge gilt refers to the practice of applying gold or a gold-like finish to the top of the text block (the edges the pages...
- 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...
- 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....
- 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...
- Inscribed
- When a book is described as being inscribed, it indicates that a short note written by the author or a previous owner has been...
- Shaken
- A hardcover in which the text block is loose, but still attached to the binding.
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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...
- 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,...
- 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....
- BAL
- Bibliography of American Literature (commonly abbreviated as BAL in descriptions) is the quintessential reference work for any...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
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