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THE CULPRIT FAY.
by DRAKE, JOSEPH RODMAN
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Light Edge Wear/No Jacket
- Seller
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Prairie Village, Kansas, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Carleton, 1867. Corners and spine extremities rubbed. Two quires loosened. Gilt borders with intricate gilt patterns on both covers. Panelled spine. Marbled endpaper. All edges gilt. 100 illustrations by Arthur Lumley. This is the first illustrated edition, the true first edition having been published in 1835. See BAL 4825 and 4839. 118pp.. Reprint Edition.. Full Brown Morocco. Light Edge Wear/No Jacket. Square Octavo.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Glenn Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001360
- Title
- THE CULPRIT FAY.
- Author
- DRAKE, JOSEPH RODMAN
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Light Edge Wear
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- Reprint Edition.
- Publisher
- Carleton
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1867
- Size
- Square Octavo
- Keywords
- POETRY, BINDING, ILLUSTRATED
Terms of Sale
Glenn Books
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About the Seller
Glenn Books
Biblio member since 2005
Prairie Village, Kansas
About Glenn Books
We are an antiquarian bookshop established in 1933. We are members of ABAA and ILAB.
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- 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...
- BAL
- Bibliography of American Literature (commonly abbreviated as BAL in descriptions) is the quintessential reference work for any...
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- 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...
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Morocco
- Morocco is a style of leather book binding that is usually made with goatskin, as it is durable and easy to dye. (see also...
- 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....