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A Memorial of Alice and Phobe Cary, with Some of Their Later Poems
by Cary, Alice and Phoebe. Edited By Mary Clemmer Ames
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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East Granby, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
New York: Hurd and Houghton, 1873. First edition, 1873. Biography of the these two Victorian era sisters who were poets, abolitionists and proponents of women's rights. Rust colored cloth lettered and decorated in gilt and black. Cover rubbed at the extremities, very small chip to rear edge of spine, good hinges, text block bascially sound but not firm, slightly age-toned but clean pages, gift notation dated 1873 on preliminary blank, pages adjacent to endpapers foxed.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
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- Bookseller
- Resource Books, LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 034669
- Title
- A Memorial of Alice and Phobe Cary, with Some of Their Later Poems
- Author
- Cary, Alice and Phoebe. Edited By Mary Clemmer Ames
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Hurd and Houghton
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1873
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7&
- Keywords
- AMERICAN FEMALE WOMEN POETS ABOLITIONISTS
- Bookseller catalogs
- American History and Biography; Fiction, Literature, Poetry, Literary History;
Terms of Sale
Resource Books, LLC
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About the Seller
Resource Books, LLC
Biblio member since 2004
East Granby, Connecticut
About Resource Books, LLC
Resource Books, LLC deals in antiquarian and out-of-print books in a wide variety of subject matter, mainly non-fiction.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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...
- 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...
- 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....
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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