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History of Tennessee: Making of a State
by Phelan, James
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Hartland, Michigan, United States
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About This Item
Houghton and Mifflin. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1888. First Edition :. Hardcover. 12mo hardcover, first edition, front hinge starting but taped, clean unfoxed text, pencilling on front endpaper, wear to covers, top edge gilt, deckle edges to pages, else VG. Contains the folding-map as a frontis. Last two pages unopened, unread? Scarce Tennessee history; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 478 pages pages .
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- Bookseller
- Mossback Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 27636
- Title
- History of Tennessee: Making of a State
- Author
- Phelan, James
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good with no dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition :
- Publisher
- Houghton and Mifflin
- Date Published
- 1888
- Keywords
- Tennessee History
- Bookseller catalogs
- History;
Terms of Sale
Mossback Books
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About the Seller
Mossback Books
Biblio member since 2004
Hartland, Michigan
About Mossback Books
Sales through the internet and at book shows in the midwest.
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- 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...
- Jacket
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- VG
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- Hinge
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- Edges
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- Top Edge Gilt
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- Unopened
- A state in which all or some of the pages of a book have not been separated from the adjacent pages, caused by a traditional...
- First Edition
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