At Sundown
by Whittier, John Greenleaf, Illustrated by E.H. Garrett
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fair
- Seller
-
Staten Island, New York, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1892. First Edition. Original white cloth, illustrated with frontispiece and 8 plates. Cloth quite age soiled, with several stains on rear board. Cloth splitting along outer rear hinge. One plate badly torn. Else a solid, internally clean and sound copy of the first trade edition of the title.. Hardcover. Fair. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Great Expectations Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001053
- Title
- At Sundown
- Author
- Whittier, John Greenleaf, Illustrated by E.H. Garrett
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Publisher
- Houghton, Mifflin and Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1892
- Keywords
- POEMS, POETRY E.H. GARRETT
- Bookseller catalogs
- Poetry; Alibris4;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Great Expectations Rare Books
Biblio member since 2005
Staten Island, New York
About Great Expectations Rare Books
We carry a general stock of antiquarian books with a focus on Charles Dickens, 19th and 20th century literature, history and biography.
Glossary
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- 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...
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- 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...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...