A Spelling Book, North Carolina Edition (Revised and Enlarged)
by Foust, Julius I.; Isaac C. Griffin; and Thomas R. Foust
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair/No Jacket
- Seller
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Greensboro, North Carolina, United States
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About This Item
Raleigh, N.C.: Alfred Williams & Co., 1911. Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. 12mo. 188 pages. Hardcover bound in brown cloth. The binding is bumped and worn and has pale spotting on the spine. Binding dulled form use. A sound copy with secure inner hinges. Endpapers foxed. Text is toned and smudged. A few pages at the front have chips at the bottom corners. A sturdy copy. The authors were from North Carolina. Julius Foust was the President of the State Normal and Industrial College (now UNCG) in Greensboro, NC. Isaac Griffin was the Superintendent of the City Schools in Marion, NC. Thomas Foust was the Superintendent of the Guilford County Schools, also from Greensboro.
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- Bookseller
- Pages Past Used and Rare Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 051401
- Title
- A Spelling Book, North Carolina Edition (Revised and Enlarged)
- Author
- Foust, Julius I.; Isaac C. Griffin; and Thomas R. Foust
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Alfred Williams & Co.
- Place of Publication
- Raleigh, N.C.
- Date Published
- 1911
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾
- Weight
- 1.50 lbs
- Keywords
- 1911; Julius I. Foust; Isaac C. Griffin; Thomas R. Foust; Spelling Book; Children's Books; Elementary; Education; Educational; North Carolina; Greensboro; Guilford County; Marion, NC; Superintendent.
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children's Books; Education; North Carolina;
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About the Seller
Pages Past Used and Rare Books
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Greensboro, North Carolina
About Pages Past Used and Rare Books
Pages Past is a small used & rare bookshop located a few blocks from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Since 1996 we have been serving the Triad community as well as customers from around the world. We have around 15-20,000 volumes in our shop. We specialize in North Carolina, Virginia, Civil War, Old Leather, Christianity, Eastern and Western Philosophies, and the simply unusual. We very likely have the oldest books in Greensboro; we keep a nice selection of antiquarian volumes and scholarly books.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
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