Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1896. Title page dated 1896, originally published in 1874. Appledore Edition. Externally fair, internally very good. Olive green cloth with gilt cover illustration and lettering, gilt top edge, patterned endpapers, 272 pages including indices to title and first lines. Spine sunned to tan with gilt lettering and decoration legible, some holes along the joints and edge or rear cover, internally much better with good hinges, firm text block, clean pages, no names or other markings.. Hard Cover. Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

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Bookseller: Resource Books, LLC (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 047239
Title: The Poems of Celia Thaxter
Author: Thaxter, Celia
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Good
Publisher: Houghton, Mifflin and Company
Place of Publication: Boston and New York
Date Published: 1896
Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7&
Keywords: NEW HAMPSHIRE ISLE OF SHOALS NATURE AMERICAN FEMALE POETS END OF NINETEENTH CENTURY POEM ON BEETHOVEN
Bookseller catalogs: Fiction, Literature, Poetry, Literary History;

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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...
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....
New: A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
Title Page: A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
Fair: is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
Sunned: Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...