Five Years in the Alleghanies
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair with no dust jacket; Spine cocked and split along backstrip, boards worn, bookseller stamp embossed on front free endpaper
- Seller
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Selkirk, New York, United States
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About This Item
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 Hawks 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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Details
- Bookseller
- Old Saratoga Books (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;
Terms of Sale
Old Saratoga Books
We are happy to provide a refund within thirty days of the customer's receipt of any book(s) upon return of the book(s) to our shop.
About the Seller
Old Saratoga Books
Biblio member since 2005
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.
Glossary
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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...