The House of the Seven Gables Full Leather Binding 1963 Easton Press

Binding:  leather_bound
Publication date:  1963-01-01T00:00:00.000Z
Publisher:  Easton Press
Category (item-type):  book

Easton Press, Masterpieces of American Literature; Collector’s Edition, 1979 Forest green leather hardcover features: gold gilt decorative cover (boards and spine) with banded spine, moire end pages, gold gilt page-edges and satin ribbon marker. The book is clean, shows light usage, with a few light scratches to gold leaf page edge.

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