Leaf-Shadows and Rose-Drift: Being Little Songs from a Los Angeles Garden
by Percival, Olive
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
-
Monterey, California, United States
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About This Item
Cambridge: Riverside Press, 1911. 1st. Hardcover. First edition. 18mo. xii, 117pp. Small black & white vignette to title page. Green cloth coverd boards; black stamped titles and decoration to boards; gilt titles to the spine. Only very slight shelf wear to top and bottom of spine; edges otherwise neat and clean; small worn area on spine affecting the author's name. Very good.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Carpe Diem Fine Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 15656
- Title
- Leaf-Shadows and Rose-Drift: Being Little Songs from a Los Angeles Garden
- Author
- Percival, Olive
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st
- Publisher
- Riverside Press
- Place of Publication
- Cambridge
- Date Published
- 1911
- Keywords
- spoto, Californiana, , ,
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About the Seller
Carpe Diem Fine Books
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Monterey, California
About Carpe Diem Fine Books
Carpe Diem Fine Books offers a discriminating selection of out-of-print, signed and unusual books in all fields – with an emphasis on the history and literature of California and the West. Proprietors James Bryant and Mary Hill have served an international clientele of private collectors and libraries since 1995. Their book gallery, located in a charming 1930's Carmel stone building just steps from the Robert Louis Stevenson House in historic Old Monterey, features a constantly changing inventory - from the classics to the unexpected.
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- 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...
- Title Page
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- 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....
- 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...
- Vignette
- A decorative design or illustration placed at the beginning or end of a ...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
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