A MEMOIR OF WILLIAM GIBBONS
by Tebbets, Theodore
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good with no dust jacket
- Seller
-
Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada
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About This Item
New York: Private Printing. Very Good with no dust jacket. ca 1865. First Edition. Hardcover. Brown heavily pebble grained cloth, gilt titles, edges lightly rubbed, frontis engraving a little foxed, a very good, clean, tight copy. Scarce. SIGNED by the author on the free endpaper. William Gibbons, a Quaker, read law at Cambridge and this book comprises his letters and comments from his friends on his early demise. A very rare book. ; 8vo; 129pp. pages .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Luis Porretta Fine Arts
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 6076
- Title
- A MEMOIR OF WILLIAM GIBBONS
- Author
- Tebbets, Theodore
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good with no dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Private Printing
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- ca 1865
- Keywords
- Biographies, Theology, Autograph
- Bookseller catalogs
- Signed;
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About the Seller
Luis Porretta Fine Arts
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Nanaimo, British Columbia
About Luis Porretta Fine Arts
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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...
- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- 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...
- First Edition
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