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A New Voyage to Carolina (#118 of 500 Copies; This Copy INSCRIBED by the Editor to Another North Carolina Historian).
by Lawson, John. (Edited by Hugh Talmage Lefler)
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- Hardcover
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- Condition
- Good/Fair
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Greensboro, North Carolina, United States
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About This Item
Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1967. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Good/Fair. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Quarto. 305 pages, indexed. Hardcover with a black and tan dust jacket. Heavy rubbing and wear to the jacket, which has edge tears and creases and a notable spot of abrasion on the front hinge. Foxing to the outside edges of the text block. Illustrated endpapers. Inscription written at the top of the front flyleaf. LIMITED EDITION, this is copy 118 of 500 copies. This copy is INSCRIBED by editor Hugh Lefler to fellow North Carolina historian, Lindley Butler, "To Lindley Butler, Compatriot in North Carolina history. With best regards, Hugh T. Lefler." Text is clean. Contains several illustrations with some in color.
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- Bookseller
- Pages Past Used and Rare Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 051808
- Title
- A New Voyage to Carolina (#118 of 500 Copies; This Copy INSCRIBED by the Editor to Another North Carolina Historian).
- Author
- Lawson, John. (Edited by Hugh Talmage Lefler)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition First Printing
- Publisher
- The University of North Carolina Press
- Place of Publication
- Chapel Hill
- Date Published
- 1967
- Size
- 4to - over 9¾ - 12\" tall
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- 1967; John Lawson; Hugh Talmage Lefler; North Carolina History; Colonial; Classic; 18th century; Native American Indians; Collectible. Limited edition
- Bookseller catalogs
- North Carolina; Native American Interests;
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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.
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- Rubbing
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- Edges
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- Hinge
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- Jacket
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- Inscribed
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- 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...
- First Edition
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