THE ISLES OF SHOALS AN HISTORICAL SKETCH
by Jenness, John Scribner
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
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- Seller
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Glen Head, New York, United States
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About This Item
Boston 1884 first edition. Houghton Mifflin. Hardcover 12mo. original brown cloth with black and gilt trim and gilt lettering. 214p. Original black end papers. Frontispiece view of Star Island; portrait of Champlain; view of Appledore, England; two double page maps; one large foldout map. Complete. This edition is enlarged over the first edition. VG. binding secure; a very few very tiny neat pencil notations adding to and amending the text. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Xerxesbooks (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- a96095
- Title
- THE ISLES OF SHOALS AN HISTORICAL SKETCH
- Author
- Jenness, John Scribner
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Keywords
- isles shoals maine new hampshire americana nineteenth
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- 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...
- 12mo
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- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
- 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...
- Cloth
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