The Frontier
by Platt, Ward
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair/No Jacket as Published
- Seller
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Rio Rancho, New Mexico, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Eaton & Mains, 1908 292 pp. Text has a moisture stain along the top edge that doesn't extend into the text, unmarked, spine is cracked front and back at gutters. 26 B&W plates.Two color maps, one has a tear. Published by the Young People's Missionary Movement as a guide to the American west and an account of the characteristics of the native peoples and immigrants found in the west and their prospects for conversion. Green cloth boards are faded and rubbed. There is a photo of a western town street as a paste-down on the front board. Best described as a reading copy. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Cloth. Fair/No Jacket as Published.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Catron Grant Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000684
- Title
- The Frontier
- Author
- Platt, Ward
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket as Published
- Publisher
- Eaton & Mains
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1908
- Keywords
- MISSIONARIES, AMERICAN WEST,
- Bookseller catalogs
- American History;
Terms of Sale
Catron Grant Books
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged. Books must be returned in the condition in which they were sold. No returns on books valued at less than $9.00.
About the Seller
Catron Grant Books
Biblio member since 2012
Rio Rancho, New Mexico
About Catron Grant Books
Specializing in olderbooks on travel and exploration in Asia, and World War II Pacific and Southeast Asia.Online sales and antiquarian book shows in the American West.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Reading Copy
- Indicates a book that is perfectly serviceable for reading. It may have a defect or damage. As such, reading copy is not a...
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
- 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...
- 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....
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