The Way We Were New England Then, New England Now
by Okrent, Daniel
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Deep River, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
New York: Grove Weidenfeld, (1989). First Edition. First Printing Fine in 1/4 red-orange cloth and paper covered boards with bold gilt text stamping on the spine. A square small quarto 9 3/4 by 9 3/4 inches with touches of foxing to the fore edge of the text block. In a fine, unclipped dust jacket. 179 to include photo credits and text. Illustrated throughout with black and white images from photographs.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Town's End Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- TB30667
- Title
- The Way We Were New England Then, New England Now
- Author
- Okrent, Daniel
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Grove Weidenfeld
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- (1989)
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Town's End Books
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Deep River, Connecticut
About Town's End Books
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- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- 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....
- Fine
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Quarto
- The term quarto is used to describe a page or book size. A printed sheet is made with four pages of text on each side, and the...
- Fore Edge
- The portion of a book that is opposite the spine. That part of a book which faces the wall when shelved in a traditional...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....