Louisville, KY: Shelby County Genealogical-Historical Society. Good with no dust jacket. 1929. Hardcover. Red cloth binding rubbed at extremities; backstrip lightly yellowed; boards a bit scuffed; cloth over rear board puckered at bottom edge; hinges, several points in textblock cracked, a few leaves detaching along hinge, one joint neatly reinforced with clear tape; one or two pencilled margin notations not obscuring text; leaf edges, endpapers foxed, else good. No dj. ; Good b&w photo ils.; 8vo; 268 pages .

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Bookseller: Hyde Brothers, Booksellers (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 34206
Title: History of Shelby County, Kentucky
Author: Willis, Geo. L., Sr
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Good with no dust jacket
Publisher: Shelby County Genealogical-Historical Society
Place of Publication: Louisville, KY
Date Published: 1929
Keywords: American History, Kentucky History, Southern United States, Regional America, County Histories, Historical Reference
Bookseller catalogs: US History, Regional: South;

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Leaves: Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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...
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,...
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
Foxed: Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
Hinge: The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.