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Sidney Lanier
by Mims, Edwin
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/No jacket
- Seller
-
Meadows of Dan, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1905. First edition. Hardcover. Good/No jacket. 385 pages with index, illustrated with tissue protected black and white frontispiece portrait of Lanier with facsimile signature plus black and white plates. A biography of the Southern poet, musician and Confederate soldier. Red cloth binding with gilt titles on front cover and spine. Cover heavily spotted, spine faded, some edge wear, corners and spine ends bumped, former owner's name on front free end paper, end papers tanned, a little discoloration on frontispiece, tissue and title page, interior pages lightly tanned but clean, binding tight.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Scraps of American History
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001010
- Title
- Sidney Lanier
- Author
- Mims, Edwin
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Houghton, Mifflin and Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1905
- Keywords
- Biography, literature, authors, poets, Civil War, history
- Bookseller catalogs
- Biography;
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
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Facsimile
- An exact copy of an original work. In books, it refers to a copy or reproduction, as accurate as possible, of an original...
- 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- 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...
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