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Pages and Pictures from the Writings of James Fenimore Cooper
de Cooper, James Fenimore; Susan Fenimore Cooper (notes)
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- g to vg
- Librería
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Santa Monica, California, United States
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Sobre este artículo
New York: W. A. Townsend and Company, 1861. First edition. Hardcover. g to vg. Quarto. (2) 400pp. 40 plates. Original brown leather with blind-stamped decorative ruling an tooling, and gilt lettering on cover and spine. Raised bands. Gilt edges. Marbled endpapers. Frontispiece engraving. Half-title engraving. Decorative and historiated head and end pieces. Seven woodcuts by N. Orr & Co., J. Cox, and J. H. Richardson. "The writings of Mr. Fenimore Cooper... flow from a fountain more copious than any other opened, until now, on the same soil; it is believed that no author this side of the Atlantic has written so fully. A long succession of works possessing merit in themselves, reaching to so large a number, and covering, in their composition, so long a period of time, must always possess a degree of importance which cannot belong to ant isolated book. Each work, in a series of this nature, appears not only in its individual character, but also as a member of a group;..." (S.F.C.) Illustrated with forty engravings, with tissue guards, by W. E. Marshall, R. Hinshelwood, J. D. Smillie, J. McGoffin, L. Delnoce, J.. Duthie, J. Mc Goffin, and many others. Binding with some scuffing along edges and one inch closed tear at top of front joint. Block slightly age-toned. Binding in overall good, interior in very good condition.
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- Librería
- Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller
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- Inventario del vendedor #
- 45929
- Título
- Pages and Pictures from the Writings of James Fenimore Cooper
- Autor
- Cooper, James Fenimore; Susan Fenimore Cooper (notes)
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - g to vg
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- First edition
- Editorial
- W. A. Townsend and Company
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 1861
- Palabras clave
- American literature, American short stories, American novels, American romance, leatherstocking series, Natty Bumppo, Last of the Mohicans,
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Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller
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Santa Monica, California
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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....
- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
- 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...
- G
- Good describes the average used and worn book that has all pages or leaves present. Any defects must be noted. (as defined by AB...
- Raised Band(s)
- Raised bands refer to the ridges that protrude slightly from the spine on leather bound books. The bands are created in the...
- 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...
- Quarto
- The term quarto is used to describe a page or book size. A printed sheet is made with four pages of text on each side, and the...
- 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...
