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Across the Plains and Among the Diggings
by Alonzo Delano
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- Seller
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Gleneden Beach, Oregon, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Wilson Erickson Inc, 1936. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 1936 edition, A Reprint of the Original Edition with Reproductions of Numerous Photographs Taken By Louis Palenske, 192 pages with double column text, Book is almost 12 inches in height, Beautiful very clean red embossed cloth with bright gilt titles to front board and spine, would be near Fine except for glue residue from an old bookplate on front paste down, (a new book plate would cover it nicely, No other writing, binding is tight and all photographs present. Jacket is Good Plus, some tape en verso, some soling back panel and random light wear, even though it shows nicely in new mylar sleeve. An excellent book and a great value. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Pacific Coast Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001583
- Title
- Across the Plains and Among the Diggings
- Author
- Alonzo Delano
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Wilson Erickson Inc
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1936
- Keywords
- California History, Gold Rush
Terms of Sale
Pacific Coast Books
10 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 10 days after delivery if an item arrives mis-described or damaged.
About the Seller
Pacific Coast Books
Biblio member since 2015
Gleneden Beach, Oregon
About Pacific Coast Books
Pacific Coast Books specializes in quality of books of interest from our store on the Central Oregon Coast. We are proud members of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America and have been buying and selling books for almost 20 years. Visit our website at www.Pacifc CoastBooks.net. Please feel free to call or email with any titles you would like to add to your collection. Only a small fraction of our inventory is online. We buy book collections.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
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