The Baby's Things: A Story in Verse for Christmas Eve
by Abbott, Edward
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fair
- Seller
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East Granby, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
New York: Anson D. F. Randolph, 1871. First edition, 1871. Poem illustrated with five engraved plates. Sound but worn copy in purplish brown cloth lettered in gilt, 7.5" tall, 53 pages. Covers unevenly age-faded and spotted, spine ends frayed, good hinges, sound text block, pages age-tanned with just a little bit of foxing, two adjacent pages with darkened areas from an old newspaper clipping, endpapers foxed, old gift notation in pencil on front free endpaper, no other markings.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fair. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Resource Books, LLC (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 034178
- Title
- The Baby's Things: A Story in Verse for Christmas Eve
- Author
- Abbott, Edward
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Anson D. F. Randolph
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1871
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7&
- Keywords
- VICTORIAN CHRISTMAS THEMED POETRY POEMS
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction, Literature, Poetry, Literary History;
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Resource Books, LLC
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East Granby, Connecticut
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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....
- Cloth
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- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- 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...
- 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...
- 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....
- 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...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...