A Day on the Cooper River
by Irving, John B.; Enlarged and Edited by Louisa Cheves Stoney
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Greensboro, North Carolina, United States
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About This Item
Columbia, South Carolina: The R. L. Bryan Company, 1932. Second Edition. . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Octavo. 220, [1] pages, indexed. Hardcover bound in navy blue cloth. Light to moderate rubbing and wear to the binding. Small white blemish at the top edge of the front cover. A sound copy with secure inner hinges. The text is a little toned. There is underling to a line on page viii, but otherwise the text appears clean. Complete with the portrait frontis and the folding map just before page 5. The Editor's Notes at the beginning states that 300 copies were published. Originally published in 1842
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Details
- Bookseller
- Pages Past Used and Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 048550
- Title
- A Day on the Cooper River
- Author
- Irving, John B.; Enlarged and Edited by Louisa Cheves Stoney
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Second Edition.
- Publisher
- The R. L. Bryan Company
- Place of Publication
- Columbia, South Carolina
- Date Published
- 1932
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Weight
- 1.50 lbs
- Keywords
- 1932; 1842; John B. Irving; Louisa Cheves Stoney; Cooper River; Rare; Collectible; Limited Edition; 300 Copies; South Carolina; Americana; The South; Southern; History; Culture.
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- General Antiquarian & Rare;
Terms of Sale
Pages Past Used and Rare Books
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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
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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...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...