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Annals of American Sport
by Krout, John Allen
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Newton, Massachusetts, United States
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About This Item
New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1929. Independence Edition. The Pageant of America. A Pictorial History of the United States. Volume XV only. 4to size blue clothbound hardcover with gilt titles and decorations on spine and decoration on front cover. Illustrated endpapers. 360 toned pages, profusely illustrated with black and white engravings. Color frontispiece on glossy stock. Contents Includes: The Romance of the Turf Anglers and Nimrods The Rise of the National Game (baseball) Sports for the Masses Football and the Scholastic Influence Golf and the Country Club Ex-library with typical markings. Significant edgewear, notably to bottom and outside edges; head and heel of spine is chipped and has multiple tears. Bumped and worn corners; we noted fingermarks on several pages, frontispiece has inch tear in bottom margin. Pastedowns spilt, book is shaken. No extra shipping charges if sent via US Media Mail. Thanks for shopping with us! 100% of your purchase benefits charity and supports literacy and lifelong learning.. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Ex-Library.
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- Seller
- Charity Bookstall
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- Seller's Inventory #
- 002890
- Title
- Annals of American Sport
- Author
- Krout, John Allen
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Place of Publication
- New Haven, CT
- Date Published
- 1929
- Size
- 4to - over 9¾" - 12&
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- The Pageant of America; antiquarian; sport; Sports; Independence Edition; Volume; XV; 15;a Pictorial History of the United States; history; United States;
- Bookseller catalogs
- History; Antiquarian; Sports;
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Newton, Massachusetts
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Glossary
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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...
- Shaken
- A hardcover in which the text block is loose, but still attached to the binding.
- 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...
- 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...
- Heel
- The lower most portion of the spine when the book is standing vertically.
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