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Hell in Nebraska A Tale of the Nebraska Penitentiary
by Wilson, Walter
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Hartland, Michigan, United States
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About This Item
Lincoln: Bankers Publishing Company. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1913. 1st Edition. Hardcover. In good to very good condition with original green cloth boards with black lettering and design on both panels, rubbed with some fraying at spine. Name penciled in large format front endpaper. Front hinge cracked with visible webbing at title page. Else a complete copy of this fictional account of life and happenings at the Nebraska State Pen - illustrated with photographs. Quite scarce. ; MCN34038; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 372 pp .
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Details
- Bookseller
- McCormick Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 41369
- Title
- Hell in Nebraska A Tale of the Nebraska Penitentiary
- Author
- Wilson, Walter
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good with no dust jacket
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Bankers Publishing Company
- Place of Publication
- Lincoln
- Date Published
- 1913
- Keywords
- Nebraska Prisons Fiction Americana
- Bookseller catalogs
- Americana;
Terms of Sale
McCormick Books
Books are shipped immediately upon receipt of payments. Returns allowed within two weeks.
About the Seller
McCormick Books
Biblio member since 2004
Hartland, Michigan
About McCormick Books
Mail order book store specializing in Genealogy, History and Michigan History.
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- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Spine
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- Title Page
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- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Cracked
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- Cloth
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- Jacket
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