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The Century of the Reaper - An Account of Cyrus Hall McCormick, the Inventor of the Reaper: of the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company, the Business he created: and of the International Harvester Company, his Heir and chief Memorial
by McCormick, Cyrus (Author)
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
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Richland, Washington, United States
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About This Item
Cambridge, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1931. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Used Book: Hard Cover Light shelf wear with mild denting to cover corners. Mild rubbing and denting to spine ends and hinges with some color loss to title on spine. Uneven page edges due to publication. Slight toning to text block with chipping to page edges.
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- Adventures Underground
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- 883681
- Title
- The Century of the Reaper - An Account of Cyrus Hall McCormick, the Inventor of the Reaper: of the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company, the Business he created: and of the International Harvester Company, his Heir and chief Memorial
- Author
- McCormick, Cyrus (Author)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin
- Place of Publication
- Cambridge, MA
- Date Published
- 1931
- Keywords
- Americana, Agriculture
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- 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....
- 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...
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- 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....
- 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...
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