MOUNT VERNON: Washington's Home and the Nation's Shrine
by Wilstach, Paul
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
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Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1916. 302 pp. Original dark blue cloth covers w/ gilt decoration on front cover and spine. Spine ends a bit bumped. Neat inscription to previous owner on front blank endpaper; bookseller's small label on rear paste-down. C. K. Berryman bookplate on front paste-down. Illust. w/ b/w plates. Contents nice.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good+/No Dust Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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- Bookseller
- Shoemaker Booksellers (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 24581VA
- Title
- MOUNT VERNON: Washington's Home and the Nation's Shrine
- Author
- Wilstach, Paul
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Doubleday, Page & Company
- Place of Publication
- Garden City, NY
- Date Published
- 1916
- Keywords
- AMERICANA VIRGINIA STATE HISTORY VA DESCRIPTION AND TRAVEL MOUNT VERNON ESTATE HOMES AND HAUNTS ARCHITECTURE PRESIDENTS WASHINGTON GEORGE 1732 1799 HEADS OF STATE 1789 1797 POLITICS GOVERNMENT AMERICAN HISTORY UNITED STATES NONFICTION GENERAL ILLUSTRATED
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- Politics; Presidents; Architecture;
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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Shoemaker Booksellers
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Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
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- First Edition
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- Jacket
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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....
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
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