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Whittier - Crusader and Prophet (The Firbank Series)
by Arthur Rowntree
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/Fair
- Seller
-
Pateley Bridge, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Item Price
$15.70$12.56
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Headley Brothers Book. Good. Turquoise Cloth Boards. Presumed First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Undated biography of the Quaker poet and abolitionist, John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892). 108pp with black and white portrait to frontis. Gilt lettering to spine. Some bumping to spine and corners, fading to edges and left hinge starting to show, otherwise good copy with no inscriptions. Unclipped DJ quite rubbed and edgeworn with tears and some loss to top and bottom of spine..
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Details
- Bookseller
- Washburn Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 008639
- Title
- Whittier - Crusader and Prophet (The Firbank Series)
- Author
- Arthur Rowntree
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Edition
- Presumed First Edition
- Publisher
- Headley Brothers
- Place of Publication
- London
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7&
- Bookseller catalogs
- Biography;
Terms of Sale
Washburn Books
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Washburn Books
Biblio member since 2010
Pateley Bridge, North Yorkshire
About Washburn Books
Washburn Books is a small family business, based in Yorkshire. We offer a wide variety of hard-to-find and out-of-print books in our virtual store, as well as an offline search service. We take pride in our fast delivery of well packaged books.
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- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- 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...
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