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Compendium of History and Biography of the City of Detroit and Wayne County, Michigan
by Henry Taylor & Company
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+ with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Hartland, Michigan, United States
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About This Item
Henry Taylor & Co.. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1908. 1st Edition. Full-leather. Full leather boards with beveled edges rubbed, gilt lettering to spine with leather just starting to split head of spine. Decorated endpapers, sticker remnant inside front board. Corners square and tight, tightly bound and a solid very good+ copy. Oversized history of Detroit and Wayne County with numerous biographical sketches, histories of financial institutions and other businesses, portraits with tissue guards.; MCN27703; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 719 pp .
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Details
- Bookseller
- McCormick Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 33674
- Title
- Compendium of History and Biography of the City of Detroit and Wayne County, Michigan
- Author
- Henry Taylor & Company
- Format/Binding
- Full-leather
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+ with no dust jacket
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Henry Taylor & Co.
- Date Published
- 1908
- Keywords
- U.S. History Wayne County Michigan Genealogy
- Bookseller catalogs
- Michigan History;
Terms of Sale
McCormick Books
Books are shipped immediately upon receipt of payments. Returns allowed within two weeks.
About the Seller
McCormick Books
Biblio member since 2004
Hartland, Michigan
About McCormick Books
Mail order book store specializing in Genealogy, History and Michigan History.
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- 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...
- 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...
- 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.
- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Beveled
- Beveled edges, or beveled boards, describe a technique of binding in which the edges of book boards have been cut into slanted...
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