Encyclopedia of American Biography (First Edition)
by Garraty, John A. (editor); Jerome L. Sternstein (Associate Editor)
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- Seller
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Saint Louis, Missouri, United States
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About This Item
New York, Evanston, San Francisco, London: Harper & Row, 1974. FIRST EDITION, first printing. Full blue cloth hardcover with gilt lettering on the spine book is cocked. jacket has light ear and a quarter inch closed tear at the topf of the spine. Inked price on the front free endpaper. Overall a GOOD book in a GOOD brodart protected dust jacket. . First Edition. Full Cloth. Very Good/Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Hardcover.
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- Bookseller
- Ziern-Hanon Galleries
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 017737
- Title
- Encyclopedia of American Biography (First Edition)
- Author
- Garraty, John A. (editor); Jerome L. Sternstein (Associate Editor)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Harper & Row
- Place of Publication
- New York, Evanston, San Francisco, London
- Date Published
- 1974
- Size
- 4to - over 9¾" - 12&
- Keywords
- prof7
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- 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....
- Brodart
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- First Edition
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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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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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