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Sung at the Alamo
by Calkins, William Hugh
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Very Good- in Good dust jacket
- Seller
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Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States
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About This Item
Dallas, TX: Mathis, Van Nort & Co.. Very Good- in Good dust jacket. 1937. Hardcover. Violet cloth binding slightly rubbed at spine ends & corners; board edges slightly faded; leaf edges, outer leaves browned, else a crisp, tight book. Dj rubbed: slightly chipped at edges; backstrip a bit sunned; surface browned & smudged, now protected in mylar cover.; Nice black & white page decorations; front free endpaper signed by author. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; Unpaginated pages; Signed by Author .
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- Bookseller
- Hyde Brothers, Booksellers
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 41253
- Title
- Sung at the Alamo
- Author
- Calkins, William Hugh
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good- in Good dust jacket
- Publisher
- Mathis, Van Nort & Co.
- Place of Publication
- Dallas, TX
- Date Published
- 1937
- Keywords
- 20th Century American Poetry, Historical Poetry, Signed by William Hugh Calkins, William Hugh Calkins' Autograph
- Bookseller catalogs
- GC: Poetry;
Terms of Sale
Hyde Brothers, Booksellers
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Hyde Brothers, Booksellers
Biblio member since 2019
Fort Wayne, Indiana
About Hyde Brothers, Booksellers
Open shop with over 125,000 volumes. We try to maintain a good selection in all categories and have a fondness for the odd & obscure. Specialties include History, Nature, Literature, Religion, Mystery, SF, Art, Children's, Humor, Indiana
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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...
- Crisp
- A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...
- 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...
- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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....
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- Cloth
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