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My Old Kentucky Home
by Foster, Stephen Collins
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good +/No Jacket
- Seller
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Meadows of Dan, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
New York and Boston: H. M. Caldwell Co., 1908. Not stated. Hardcover. Good +/No Jacket. Unnumbered pages with a verse printed with decorations and a beautiful black and white plate facing on the pages. Also has lyrics and music. Frontispiece portrait of author with facsimile signature. Blue-green cloth binding with Christmas bell pastedown to front cover (May be owner addition) and gilt title and decoration on front cover. Some scuffing of cover, stains on back cover, light edge wear, spine a little cocked, corners and spine ends a bit bumped, gift inscription on front free end paper dated 1908, end papers foxed, some smudges on interior pages which are otherwise bright, binding tight.
Oversized, measures 7 x 9 inches.
Oversized, measures 7 x 9 inches.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Scraps of American History
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 00336
- Title
- My Old Kentucky Home
- Author
- Foster, Stephen Collins
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good +
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Not stated
- Publisher
- H. M. Caldwell Co.
- Place of Publication
- New York and Boston
- Date Published
- 1908
- Keywords
- poetry, songs, sentimental, rural life,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature;
Terms of Sale
Scraps of American History
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About the Seller
Scraps of American History
Biblio member since 2012
Meadows of Dan, Virginia
About Scraps of American History
Unique bookstore in the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains. We specialize in vintage and antiquarian volumes with an emphasis on history, but carry books on many subjects. Currently we are building a catalogue from a large collection. We have been members of Biblio.com since around 2001 under the name Greenberry House. Our descriptions are detailed and careful and we try to note every flaw. ALL of our books are photographed and show you the exact item you will receive. We ship within one business day of receipt of orders and generally do not add shipping charges to the amount on your original invoice.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
- Facsimile
- An exact copy of an original work. In books, it refers to a copy or reproduction, as accurate as possible, of an original...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- 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...
- 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....
- 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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