The French Quarter: An Informal History of the New Orleans Underworld
by Asbury, Herbert
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Good-VG
- Seller
-
Kutztown, Pennsylvania, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Garden City, NY: Garden City Publishing Co., 1938. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Thus. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Orange cloth, spine panel lettered/illus. in black. Slightly sunned at head of spine panel, slightly tanned endpapers. Former owner's signature stamp on front flyleaf, otherwise unmarked. 1st thus. [x],462,xvi pp., illus. Color illus. dust jacket G-VG, sunned along spine panel, with chipped corners and heel of spine, 1/4" loss across head of spine and top joint corners, now in mylar..
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- Bookseller
- Saucony Book Shop (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 065070
- Title
- The French Quarter: An Informal History of the New Orleans Underworld
- Author
- Asbury, Herbert
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Good-VG
- Edition
- First Thus
- Publisher
- Garden City Publishing Co.
- Place of Publication
- Garden City, NY
- Date Published
- 1938
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Bookseller catalogs
- American South;
Terms of Sale
Saucony Book Shop
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About the Seller
Saucony Book Shop
Biblio member since 2005
Kutztown, Pennsylvania
About Saucony Book Shop
The Saucony Book Shop, located in the heart of scenic rural Berks County, epicenter of Pennsylvania German folk culture (our shop specialty), offers a full range of gently used, rare, and antiquarian books, with many volumes of scholarly merit and an unabashed emphasis on the quaint, the curious, and the utterly obscure. We make no attempt to be a general-service book shop. Our inventory is highly selective, individually chosen from among the hundreds of thousands of books to which we have access annually at auctions, library and estate sales, and through individual scouts and vendors. We do not handle material that does not meet our expectations in terms of condition or interest to our specialized, idiosyncratic customers. Despite maintaining a browsing inventory of more than 15,000 volumes, we have minimized our carbon footprint by maintaining our entire operation in a cozy ca. 1890 barn and lean-to adjacent to an historic creamery in rural Maxatawny Township. Our shop is available for browsing by appointment and occasionally, in temperate weather, by chance, so email or call ahead to peruse the eclectic selection gracing our shelves, or ask our ferociously over-read staff for recommendations. Selling antiquarian books of merit since 1981. Full search and appraisal services; always keenly interested in purchasing quality used books, whether by the piece or by the bushel. Thanks for reading about us! Go placidly amid the noise and haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence.
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