Afoot and Alone; A Walk from Sea to Sea by the Southern Route. Adventures and Observations in Southern California, New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, Etc.
by Powers, Stephen
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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About This Item
Hartford, CT.: Columbian Book Company, 1872. xvi, 327pp. Crown octavo. Bound in half dark brown morocco leather and marbled boards; four raised bands and five compartments to the spine stamped with gold gilt lettering and decorations. Dark gray endpapers that look to be newer than the binding, though no other signs of restoration found. Gold gilt to the top edge of the text block. Heavily illustrated with full page and in-text black and white engravings. Some wear to the boards with a bit of rubbing along the edges and some abrasions to the leather on the fore and top edge of the front board. Previous owner's bookplate to the front pastedown and signature to the verso of the front fly-leaf. Internally clean and an overall very good copy. All other copies listed online at the time this one was catalogued are bound in publisher's cloth, which leads us to believe that this copy was rebound at some point, though the binding is contemporary to the book. The majority of the illustrations were done by True Williams, who is best known for the illustrations he did for some of Mark Twain's works. This book is an entertaining narrative about the author's journey across some of the American states.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Aquila Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 142591
- Title
- Afoot and Alone; A Walk from Sea to Sea by the Southern Route. Adventures and Observations in Southern California, New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, Etc.
- Author
- Powers, Stephen
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Columbian Book Company
- Place of Publication
- Hartford, CT.
- Date Published
- 1872
- Keywords
- Arizona|New Mexico|Pioneer
- Bookseller catalogs
- Americana;
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About the Seller
Aquila Books
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Calgary, Alberta
About Aquila Books
Aquila Books specializes in books dealing with Polar Exploration, Western Canadiana, Mountaineering, the Canadian Pacific Railway, Early Voyages as well as many other areas. We also deal in antique maps and prints, historic photos, autograph letters, postcards, antique scientific instruments and antique bookcases. Please contact us if you have any questions.
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- 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...
- Bookplate
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Rebound
- A book in which the pages have been bound into a covering replacing the original covering issued by the publisher.
- 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...
- Raised Band(s)
- Raised bands refer to the ridges that protrude slightly from the spine on leather bound books. The bands are created in the...
- Spine
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- Rubbing
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- Text Block
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- Edges
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- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
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