Chicago: A Personal History of America's Most American City
by Farr, Finis
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Very Good/Near Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0870001795
- ISBN 13
- 9780870001796
- Seller
-
Staten Island, New York, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New Rochelle, NY: Arlington House, 1973. Book. Near Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. Hardcover, large octavo in light green buckram and publisher's non price-clipped dust-jacket. 428 pages. Index. Illustrated. First edition. No previous ownership marks. Light age soiling to dust-jacket at extremities and edges of bulked sheets foxed. Else a clean, square, unmarked copy. Near very good in a near very good dust-jacket..
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Details
- Bookseller
- Great Expectations Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 017410
- Title
- Chicago: A Personal History of America's Most American City
- Author
- Farr, Finis
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Near Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0870001795
- ISBN 13
- 9780870001796
- Publisher
- Arlington House
- Place of Publication
- New Rochelle, NY
- Date Published
- 1973
- Keywords
- History. Chicago
- Bookseller catalogs
- History;
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About the Seller
Great Expectations Rare Books
Biblio member since 2005
Staten Island, New York
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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...
- Buckram
- A plain weave fabric normally made from cotton or linen which is stiffened with starch or other chemicals to cover the book...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...