Yesterdays with Authors (Original Publisher, Very Good)
by Fields, James T
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
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Saint Louis, Missouri, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, and Company, 1884. FIRST EDITION, later printing. Lovely original Victorian full blown cloth stamped in black and gold on front cover and spine. All edges gilt. Front board a little weak. Text pages slightly age-toned. The numerous full page steel plate engravings are very clean. A study of Thackeray, Hawthorne, Dickens, Wordsworth, Miss Mitford, Barry Cornwall and others. No previous owner's names, not exlibrary. Overall a VERY GOOD book. A good gift. UncleAndy. Full Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover.
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- Bookseller
- Ziern-Hanon Galleries
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000227
- Title
- Yesterdays with Authors (Original Publisher, Very Good)
- Author
- Fields, James T
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Publisher
- Houghton, Mifflin, and Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1884
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
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