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The Green Dragoon. The Lives of Banastre Tarleton and Mary Robinson
by Bass, Robert D
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fair/No Jacket
- Seller
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Greensboro, North Carolina, United States
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About This Item
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1957. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Octavo. 489 pages, indexed. EX-LIBRARY copy with full markings. Hardcover bound in black cloth. Lacks the dust jacket. The binding shows rubbing and wear but is sound. The foot of the spine has white library lettering and some tape residue. SIGNED by Anne King Gregorie, a South Carolina Historian and author. Lacks the front flyleaf. There is some spotting on the fore edge of the text block. The text is a little toned but generally clean. Stated First Edition.
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- Bookseller
- Pages Past Used and Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 049417
- Title
- The Green Dragoon. The Lives of Banastre Tarleton and Mary Robinson
- Author
- Bass, Robert D
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition First Printing
- Publisher
- Henry Holt and Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1957
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Weight
- 2.50 lbs
- Keywords
- 1957; Robert D. Bass; Banastre Tarleton; Mary Robinson; History; American Revolution; Revolutionary War; South Carolina; North Carolina; Romance.
- Bookseller catalogs
- Americana; Americana--The South; North Carolina;
Terms of Sale
Pages Past Used and Rare Books
14 day return guarantee, with full refund if an item arrives mis-described or damaged. Buyer pays return shipping.
About the Seller
Pages Past Used and Rare Books
Biblio member since 2017
Greensboro, North Carolina
About Pages Past Used and Rare Books
Pages Past is a small used & rare bookshop located a few blocks from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Since 1996 we have been serving the Triad community as well as customers from around the world. We have around 15-20,000 volumes in our shop. We specialize in North Carolina, Virginia, Civil War, Old Leather, Christianity, Eastern and Western Philosophies, and the simply unusual. We very likely have the oldest books in Greensboro; we keep a nice selection of antiquarian volumes and scholarly books.
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- Cloth
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- A.N.
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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...
- 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....
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Fore Edge
- The portion of a book that is opposite the spine. That part of a book which faces the wall when shelved in a traditional...
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