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Card Sharps, Dream Books, and Bucket Shops: Gambling in the 19Th-Century America
by Fabian, Ann Vincent
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine in Fine dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0801425018
- ISBN 13
- 9780801425011
- Seller
-
Allentown, Pennsylvania, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Ithaca, New York, U.S.A.: Cornell University Press. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. 0801425018 . A pristine copy, tight and crisp, with no signs of prior use or wear. The excellent jacket is protected by a mylar Brodart cover against future wear. Fast shipping world wide, with tracking number supplied to all US customers. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Autumn Leaves Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 28350
- Title
- Card Sharps, Dream Books, and Bucket Shops: Gambling in the 19Th-Century America
- Author
- Fabian, Ann Vincent
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine in Fine dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0801425018
- ISBN 13
- 9780801425011
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press
- Place of Publication
- Ithaca, New York, U.S.A.
- Date Published
- 1990
- Keywords
- 0801425018
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Autumn Leaves Books
Biblio member since 2019
Allentown, Pennsylvania
About Autumn Leaves Books
Internet only, in business since 2000, specializing in the obscure, the scholarly, the unusual. Most jackets are mylar-protected.
Glossary
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Crisp
- A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Brodart
- Generally used to refer to a clear plastic cover that is sometimes added to the dustjacket or outside covering of a book. The...
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