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Five Years in the Alleghanies

Five Years in the Alleghanies

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Five Years in the Alleghanies

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  • Hardcover
Condition
Fair with no dust jacket; Spine cocked and split along backstrip, boards worn, bookseller stamp embossed on front free endpaper
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NY: American Tract Society. Fair with no dust jacket; Spine cocked and split along backstrip, boards . worn, bookseller stamp embossed on front free endpaper, owner name (Archer . Emerson Palmer) dated 1966 penciled on front flyleaf, foxing.. 1863. Hardcover. Original dark brown blindstamped cloth with gilt titles on spine. Frontispiece engraving of Hawk’s Nest, Fayette County, West Virginia, with tissue guard. Endnote by WAH summarizing the efforts of the young “colporteur” (traveling religious bookseller) in his work in West Virginia and Pennsylvania in the 1840s. Interesting chapters about coal miners, education, religious revivals, farming, home life and other antebellum Appalachian social history. Sabin 24635. ; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 206 pages .

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Bookseller
Old Saratoga Books US (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #
39251
Title
Five Years in the Alleghanies
Format/Binding
Hardcover
Book Condition
Used - Fair with no dust jacket; Spine cocked and split along backstrip, boards worn, bookseller stamp embossed on front free endpaper
Publisher
American Tract Society
Place of Publication
NY
Date Published
1863
Weight
0.00 lbs
Keywords
West Virginia History, Pennsylvania History, 19th Century Book Peddlers, Colporteurs, Traveling Booksellers, AMERICANA, Sabin, Alleghanies
Bookseller catalogs
The American South; Biography and Memoir;

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Old Saratoga Books

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Selkirk, New York

About Old Saratoga Books

Old Saratoga Books owners Dan and Rachel Jagareski have been selling books since 1996. After running an open shop for twenty years in the historic village of Schuylerville we now sell books online and at book fairs. We are members of the Independent Online Booksellers Association (IOBA). Our specialties include books about history, science, cooking, children's books, and the arts. Rachel is a graduate of the Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar and has attended Rare Book School in Charlottesville, Virginia.

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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...
Fair
is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
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...

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