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Tales of a Wayside Inn
by Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good Plus
- Seller
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Newburyport, Massachusetts, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1863 [First American edition, presumably not first state.] Hard cover, 16 mo., in the original brown pebbled cloth with blind stamped border with a small rosette to each corner, title in gilt to spine (very faded,) coated brown endpapers, lacking front fly, with vignette title page, top edge gilt, 225 pp. plus 22 pp publisher's catalogue (dated Nov. 1863, the later variant "B") CONDITION: Good Plus. Losses to cloth at head and tail of spine, and a couple of very small rends at the joint. Wear-through at corners. Exterior is otherwise clean and unmarked. There is an ink inscription in old hand to ffep. as well as bookseller's pencil note, otherwise clean within. The work is set forth as a series of poems narrated by characters taken from among the poet's friends, and set in the eponymous Wayside Inn of Sudbury, Massachusetts, called" a favorite resort for parties from Harvard College." Poems include "Paul Revere's Ride and The Saga of King Olaf." BAL 12136. First edition. Hard Cover. Good Plus.
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- Bookseller
- Dark and Stormy Night Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 8374
- Title
- Tales of a Wayside Inn
- Author
- Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good Plus
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Ticknor and Fields
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1863
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- BAL
- Bibliography of American Literature (commonly abbreviated as BAL in descriptions) is the quintessential reference work for any...
- 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...
- 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...
- Pebbled
- Pebbled cloth or leather describes the covering of a hardcover book with a decorative texture of repeated small raised bumps,...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- First State
- used in book collecting to refer to a book from the earliest run of a first edition, generally distinguished by a change in some...
- 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...
- Vignette
- A decorative design or illustration placed at the beginning or end of a ...
- 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...
- Top Edge Gilt
- Top edge gilt refers to the practice of applying gold or a gold-like finish to the top of the text block (the edges the pages...
- 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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