Essays on the Poets and Other English Writers
by De Quincey, Thomas
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair
- Seller
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Hyattsville, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1853 Original brown blindstamped cloth with gold embossed spine. Four pages of adds before flyleaf. Volume is waterstained two-fifths of the way up the book. Boards a bit rippled and discolored but quite intact. The bookplate of J.A. Swan appears on the front pastedown. In spite of its watery encounter, the volume is sound and tight and otherwise clean. Priced 'as is.'. Original Cloth. Fair.
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- Bookseller
- Alphaville Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 4687
- Title
- Essays on the Poets and Other English Writers
- Author
- De Quincey, Thomas
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Publisher
- Ticknor, Reed, and Fields
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1853
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