Under the Willows and Other Poems
by Lowell, James Russell
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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East Granby, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Fields, Osgood & Co., 1869. First edition, externally rubbed but internally very good. Rust colored cloth over beveled boards, gilt spine lettering and front cover decoration, top edge gilt, 286 pages. Covers lightly rubbed, mainly at the extremities, with minor chipping to the spine ends, good hinges, sound text block, pages clean and free from names or other markings.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Resource Books, LLC (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 027614
- Title
- Under the Willows and Other Poems
- Author
- Lowell, James Russell
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Fields, Osgood & Co.
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1869
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7&
- Keywords
- AMERICAN POETS POEMS POETRY
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction, Literature, Poetry, Literary History;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Resource Books, LLC
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East Granby, Connecticut
About Resource Books, LLC
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Glossary
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- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Top Edge Gilt
- Top edge gilt refers to the practice of applying gold or a gold-like finish to the top of the text block (the edges the pages...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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....
- 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....
- 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...
- Beveled
- Beveled edges, or beveled boards, describe a technique of binding in which the edges of book boards have been cut into slanted...