The Wagoner of the Alleghanies: A Poem from the Days of Seventy-Six
by Read, T. Buchanan
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Greensboro, North Carolina, United States
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About This Item
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1885. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Hovenden, Penn, Gaul, and Low. 12mo. 74 pages. Soft cover bound in flexible brown leather with a string tied spine and with all edges gilt. Moderate wear to the binding. There are a few superficial scuff marks on the front cover. A sound copy with a sturdy text block. The text is a little toned, and there is some browning on page 48 where a piece of decorative Victorian paper (now absent) was laid in loosely. Contains six full-page illustrations. Early owner's name of Erma Clark on the front flyleaf. Thomas Buchanan Read (1822-1872) was from Chester County, Pennsylvania and was both a painter and a poet. He was known for his portrait paintings of Abraham Lincoln, Longfellow, Tennyson, and Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. This poem, rich in pathos, is an epic poem set during the American Revolution. As Read was from Pennsylvania, we assume the poem takes place also in Pennsylvania.
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- Bookseller
- Pages Past Used and Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 043439
- Title
- The Wagoner of the Alleghanies: A Poem from the Days of Seventy-Six
- Author
- Read, T. Buchanan
- Illustrator
- Hovenden, Penn, Gaul, and Low
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- J. B. Lippincott Co.
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia
- Date Published
- 1885
- Keywords
- 1885; T Buchanan Read; Poem ; Poetry; Alleghanies; American Revolution; Leather Binding; 19th Century.
- Bookseller catalogs
- Americana; Poetry;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Pages Past Used and Rare Books
Biblio member since 2017
Greensboro, North Carolina
About Pages Past Used and Rare Books
Pages Past is a small used & rare bookshop located a few blocks from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Since 1996 we have been serving the Triad community as well as customers from around the world. We have around 15-20,000 volumes in our shop. We specialize in North Carolina, Virginia, Civil War, Old Leather, Christianity, Eastern and Western Philosophies, and the simply unusual. We very likely have the oldest books in Greensboro; we keep a nice selection of antiquarian volumes and scholarly books.
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- 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....
- 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....
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