A Quaker Forty-Niner
by Hannum, Anna Paschall, Ed
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Good with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Moab, Utah, United States
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About This Item
Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press. Good with no dust jacket. 1930. First Edition. Cloth. Brown cloth-covered boards are heavily sunned along and near spine, some shelfwear to bottom edges. Non-personalized inscription and signature from author on half title page. Binding tight. Two bookplates on inside front board from previous owners.; Book; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; Signed by Author .
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- Bookseller
- Back of Beyond Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 003260
- Title
- A Quaker Forty-Niner
- Author
- Hannum, Anna Paschall, Ed
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Good with no dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia, PA
- Date Published
- 1930
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Located in the heart of the desert southwest Back of Beyond Books is an indie bookstore in Moab, Utah. The name of the store was drawn from one of Edward Abbey's most well-known fiction titles, The Monkey Wrench Gang. We specialize in natural history, environmental literature, southwestern guidebooks & maps, Native American books, and Western history. But we also carry a wild assortment of fiction, science, philosophy, current affairs, rare books, and generally other cool stuff.
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- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
- Tight
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- Cloth
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- Half Title
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- Sunned
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- Title Page
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- First Edition
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- 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
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- Jacket
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