First edition, octavo, pp. 86. Fine fold-out plate. Foxing on top edge & fore-edge of text block, still easily very good in the publisher's blue cloth with spine lettering gilt. Promotional sheet laid in. Good-only dust jacket a little tired from pre-mylar days, with a couple of small stray marks on front panel and light rubbing at crown of spine. Jacket now ensconced in a new sheet of archival Brodart.

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Bookseller: T. BRENNAN BOOKSELLER, ABAA (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 0000739
Title: Debts Hopeful and Desperate; Financing the Plymouth Colony.
Author: McIntyre, Ruth A
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good
Jacket Condition: Good
Quantity Available: 1
Publisher: [Plymouth, MA]: Plimoth Plantation, [1963].
Weight: 0.00 lbs
Bookseller catalogs: Massachusetts;

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Thomas Brennan was established professionally as a Bookseller in 1998 and still exhibits annually at several antiquarian book fairs. He has 25 years full-time experience in the Book Trade and is a member in good standing of The International League of Antiquarian Booksellers (ILAB); The Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America (ABAA); The Ephemera Society of America; and The Manuscript Society.

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Rubbing: Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
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