Miriam and Other Poems
by Whittier, John Greenleaf
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
-
Staten Island, New York, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Boston: Fields, Osgood, & Company, 1871. Original deep maroon cloth, faded to light brown at backstrip. Brown coated endpapers. Illustrated with frontispiece and vignette engraving on tit le. BAL 21889 second binding (no priority stated). Monogram present on lower spine --first state binding, Merle Johnson. Very good.. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Illus. by Boston. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Great Expectations Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001055
- Title
- Miriam and Other Poems
- Author
- Whittier, John Greenleaf
- Illustrator
- Boston
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Fields, Osgood, & Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1871
- Keywords
- POEMS, POETRY
- Bookseller catalogs
- Poetry;
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
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About the Seller
Great Expectations Rare Books
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Staten Island, New York
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Glossary
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- BAL
- Bibliography of American Literature (commonly abbreviated as BAL in descriptions) is the quintessential reference work for any...
- Vignette
- A decorative design or illustration placed at the beginning or end of a ...
- 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....
- 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...
- 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...