Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1888 Book. Very Good - Fine. Hardcover. 12mo. vi, 352 pp, preface, list of b&w illustrations, list of authors, from Shakespeare to Milton, from Dryden to Burns, from Wordsworth to Longfellow, indices. Later Printing of the Household of the Poets Edition. Pencilled inscription on ffep. Light wear to spine edges and corner tips. 1 1/2" tear between front endpapers at bottom, same through half-title, else, Clean, tight and strong binding with no underlining, highlighting or marginalia. Blind-stamped, gilt edges, gilt decorated blue cloth with gilt titles and beveled edges..

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Bookseller: West Side Book Shop, ABAA (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 001813
Title: Songs of Three Centuries
Author: Whittier, John Greenleaf [Edt.]
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good - Fine
Jacket Condition: No Jacket
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company
Place of Publication: Boston
Date Published: 1888
Keywords: LITERATURE ANTHOLOGY POETRY 1550-1875
Bookseller catalogs: LITERATURE;
Size: 12mo

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West Side Book Shop, Located in downtown Ann Arbor, was established in 1975 by Jay Platt, a member of the ABAA. West Side Book Shop offers a wide selection of used and rare books.

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FFEP: A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
Beveled: Beveled edges, or beveled boards, describe a technique of binding in which the edges of book boards have been cut into slanted...
Fine: A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
Marginalia: Marginalia, in brief, are notes written in the margins, or beside the text of a book by a previous owner. This is very...
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...
Edges: The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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....
Tight: Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.