Fresh Gleanings

Ike Marvel

Book Description: NY Scribners, 1851.Very good copy with some foxing to interior. Front endpapers have some offsetting from a laid in newspaper article. This is the New York "reissued" edition with new preface (this book originally issued in wrappers in two volumes in 1847). Embossed green cloth with gilt stamping on boards and spine. This book comes supplied with a dust jacket, which gives every indication that it was supplied with the book. The jacket is plain heavy paper with some soiling and some water staining on rear flap. The spine has a "diamond" cut into it to show the title of the book. The embossment of the boards and diamond "shadowing" reflect on the jacket, as well as indications of age. If this is a jacket originally supplied with the book, it is a miracle of survival for an 1851 book. The probability of it being original is good. The author's first book. First edition, in possible original dust jacket, and rare thus. Bookseller Inventory # 005082