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'Dobe Walls: A Story of Kit Carson's Southwest
by Vestal, Stanley
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good (no DJ)/No dust jacket
- Seller
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Portland, Oregon, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1929. First edition. Cloth. Very Good (no DJ)/No dust jacket. 12mo, 314 pp. Edges of boards rubbed, light dustsoiling to boards and page edges, top edge foxed, spine slightly cocked, head of spine pulled, previous owner name.
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Details
- Bookseller
- ANTHOLOGY BOOKSELLERS
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 5270
- Title
- 'Dobe Walls: A Story of Kit Carson's Southwest
- Author
- Vestal, Stanley
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good (no DJ)
- Jacket Condition
- No dust jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1929
- Keywords
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- Bookseller catalogs
- Western Americana; Kit Carson;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
ANTHOLOGY BOOKSELLERS
Biblio member since 2005
Portland, Oregon
About ANTHOLOGY BOOKSELLERS
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
- 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...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- 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...
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
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