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GREAT EVENTS, DESCRIBED BY DISTINGUISHED HISTORIANS, CHRONICLERS, AND OTHER WRITERS
by Francis Lieber
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good +
- Seller
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Blue Hill, Maine, United States
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About This Item
New York: NY: Harper and Brothers, 1862. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good +. 4 3/4 x 7 3/4 in. Brown herringbone cloth boards with blindstamped patterns, gilt lettering on spine. An extremely scarce edition. Condition is VERY GOOD+ ; corners and ends of spine bumped with no wear at all, covers very clean with sunned upper edge, spine sunned. Binding tight and text very clean with contemporry PO's name in sepia ink on ffep. History. RGR.
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- Andre Strong Bookseller
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 8151
- Title
- GREAT EVENTS, DESCRIBED BY DISTINGUISHED HISTORIANS, CHRONICLERS, AND OTHER WRITERS
- Author
- Francis Lieber
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good +
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- NY: Harper and Brothers
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1862
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- History;
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- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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....
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