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A Compendium of the History of the United States from the Earliest Settlements to 1872
by Stephens, Alexander H
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- ISBN 10
- 1928596002
- ISBN 13
- 9781928596004
- Seller
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Greensboro, North Carolina, United States
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About This Item
Bridgewater, VA: American Foundation Pubs, 1999. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 8vo. 513 pages, indexed. REPRINT of 1872 edition. Hardcover in blue cloth with black and gilt decorative illustrations on front cover. Gilt title on spine. Text block slightly cocked. Text is clean.
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- Bookseller
- Pages Past Used and Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 051533
- Title
- A Compendium of the History of the United States from the Earliest Settlements to 1872
- Author
- Stephens, Alexander H
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 1928596002
- ISBN 13
- 9781928596004
- Publisher
- American Foundation Pubs
- Place of Publication
- Bridgewater, VA
- Date Published
- 1999
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾\" tall
- Keywords
- 1999; 1872; Alexander H Stephens; United States; History; American history;
- Bookseller catalogs
- Americana;
- X weight
- 1.5 lb
Terms of Sale
Pages Past Used and Rare Books
14 day return guarantee, with full refund if an item arrives mis-described or damaged. Buyer pays return shipping.
About the Seller
Pages Past Used and Rare Books
Biblio member since 2017
Greensboro, North Carolina
About Pages Past Used and Rare Books
Pages Past is a small used & rare bookshop located a few blocks from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Since 1996 we have been serving the Triad community as well as customers from around the world. We have around 15-20,000 volumes in our shop. We specialize in North Carolina, Virginia, Civil War, Old Leather, Christianity, Eastern and Western Philosophies, and the simply unusual. We very likely have the oldest books in Greensboro; we keep a nice selection of antiquarian volumes and scholarly books.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- 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...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
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