Letters of William Wheeler of the Class of 1855, Y. C.
by Wheeler, William
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Chagrin Falls, Ohio, United States
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About This Item
Printed for private distribution, 1875. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Good ; No jacket. 1875 Printed for private distribution, printed by H .O. Houghton and Company, Riverside, Cambridge (Mass). First Edition. No additional printings listed. NOT ex-library. Hardcover has brown cloth-covered boards with gold spine lettering and black cover decorations. Black coated endpapers. Tissued frontispiece is pasted-in photographic print. Tissue guard and photo lightly foxed. Name in ink on first blank page after endpaper, dated 1876. Binding cracked inside, with two signatures loose at the top, but still sewn in at bottom and partially in middle. Front hinge partially cracked with just the paper split in spots, but still strong, with no webbing showing. Corners and spine ends bumped and rubbed, with some fraying at tips and spine ends. One inch of cloth worn through at the top of the outer front joint. Pages very lightly and uniformly tanned but still supple. Pages clean and unmarked. 468 pages. At head of title: "In Memoriam". No dust jacket. Carefully packed, shipped in a box. This item will be shipped with signature confirmation required.
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Details
- Bookseller
- SmarterRat Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 6547
- Title
- Letters of William Wheeler of the Class of 1855, Y. C.
- Author
- Wheeler, William
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Publisher
- Printed for private distribution
- Date Published
- 1875
- Keywords
- Civil War,Biography,Letters
- Bookseller catalogs
- Biography; Civil War; Letters;
Terms of Sale
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Chagrin Falls, Ohio
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- Cloth
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- Spine
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- Jacket
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- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- First Edition
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- Cracked
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