THE LINWOODS; OR, "SIXTY YEARS SINCE" IN AMERICA [CT IN 2 VOLS]
by by The Author Of "hope Leslie," "redwood" & C. [Sedgwick, Catharine Maria]
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good+ with no dust jacket
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About This Item
NY: Harper & Brothers. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1835. Hardcover. 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; xii, [2], 14-288; 287 pages; Considered to be her best novel. Poe thought it the best novel written by an American woman. Bound in original cloth with paper spine labels, lightly rolled, wear to extremities. Contents generally VG with an occasional foxed spot. The title is a rather obvious swipe at the Waverley novels, which in those days, took the place to television. .
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
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- Title
- THE LINWOODS; OR, "SIXTY YEARS SINCE" IN AMERICA [CT IN 2 VOLS]
- Author
- by The Author Of "hope Leslie," "redwood" & C. [Sedgwick, Catharine Maria]
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+ with no dust jacket
- Publisher
- Harper & Brothers
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1835
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- Novel;
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- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- 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...
- Rolled
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- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....