City Ballads
by Carleton, Will
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good Minus/No Jacket
- Seller
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Granville, New York, United States
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About This Item
NY: Harper, 1886. Hardcover. Published NY: Harper, 1886. 4to., 6 7/8" x 9 1/8." 180pp. plus 4pp. publishers ads, many illustrations. Illus. by W. A. Rogers, Thomas Nast, W. T. Smedley, R. S. Church, C. Graham, A. B. Frost. Embossed blue cloth with gilt stamping, black and gray decorations over beveled boards, brown end papers. Slight wear at the crown and heel, few soiling spots to rear cover, light finger soiling to margins of some pages, erasure rubbing on front e.p. A tight, solid copy. Very good minus. . Hard. Very Good Minus/No Jacket. 4to. Illus.
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Details
- Bookseller
- The Wild Muse (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000715
- Title
- City Ballads
- Author
- Carleton, Will
- Format/Binding
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Minus
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Harper
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1886
- Keywords
- CARLETON WILL CITY BALLADS POETRY
- Bookseller catalogs
- Poetry;
Terms of Sale
The Wild Muse
Returnable within 10 days.
About the Seller
The Wild Muse
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Granville, New York
About The Wild Muse
Literary and modern first editions. Established 1985. Mail order only.
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- Beveled
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- Gilt
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- Cloth
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- Rubbing
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- E.P.
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- Jacket
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Heel
- The lower most portion of the spine when the book is standing vertically.