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Our National Parks
by Muir, John
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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Woodstock, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1929. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Early Printing. Very Good in a Very Good jacket, clipped, toned and rubbed at the edges with a few closed tears and chips. Green buckram, toned at the edges, with slightly dulled gilt lettering on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound, lightly foxed at the top edge, clean internally. Muir's work focusing on the western national parks, including Yosemite, Yellowstone, Sequoia, and Grant. Scarce in the jacket.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Carpetbagger Books, IOBA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3905
- Title
- Our National Parks
- Author
- Muir, John
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1929
- Keywords
- National Parks, Nature, Environmental, Preservation, Yosemite, California, Wyoming, Yellowstone
Terms of Sale
Carpetbagger Books, IOBA
All items are returnable for a refund within 30 days of receipt.
About the Seller
Carpetbagger Books, IOBA
Biblio member since 2018
Woodstock, Illinois
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Glossary
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- 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....
- 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...
- Buckram
- A plain weave fabric normally made from cotton or linen which is stiffened with starch or other chemicals to cover the book...
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