Old Portraits and Modern Sketches
by WHITTIER, John Greenleaf
- Used
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
-
Winchester, Virginia, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1850. First Edition. First printing. Blindstamped brown cloth, titled in gilt; pale yellow endpapers; [vi],304,8pp; 8pp publisher's catalogue tipped in at rear, dated September 1854. Several former owners' names to front endpapers. Straight and sound, gently rubbed, endpapers and flyleaves foxed: Very Good. BAL 21769.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Lorne Bair Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 59183
- Title
- Old Portraits and Modern Sketches
- Author
- WHITTIER, John Greenleaf
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Ticknor, Reed, and Fields
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1850
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature Before 1900;
Terms of Sale
Lorne Bair Rare Books
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About the Seller
Lorne Bair Rare Books
Biblio member since 2006
Winchester, Virginia
About Lorne Bair Rare Books
Lorne Bair Rare Books specializes in books, mansuscripts, and printed ephemera relating to American Social History, with an emphasis on radical and utopian movements of the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. We are available in our showroom by appointment, at shows, and on-line through various booksellers' sites or at our website www.lornebair.com.
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