The Journey of Coronado 1540-1542, from the City of Mexico to the Buffalo Plains of Kansas and Nebraska
by Winship, George Parker
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Used - Good
- Seller
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Chicago, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
Allerton Book Co. Used - Good. 1922. First Edition. hardcover. Cloth, dj. Octavo. 251 pp. Includes fold-out map. Top edge gilt. Howes W-571. Ex-Library with markings and labels. Some shelf wear and chipping to dust jacket, toning to spine. Cellophane tape repair to lower rear corner. Pages lightly toned. Altogether very sound. Good. (Subject: Exploration).
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- Seller
- Powell's Bookstores Chicago
(US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- C63633
- Title
- The Journey of Coronado 1540-1542, from the City of Mexico to the Buffalo Plains of Kansas and Nebraska
- Author
- Winship, George Parker
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Allerton Book Co
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About the Seller
Powell's Bookstores Chicago
Biblio member since 2005
Chicago, Illinois
About Powell's Bookstores Chicago
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- 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....
- Cloth
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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...
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- Top Edge Gilt
- Top edge gilt refers to the practice of applying gold or a gold-like finish to the top of the text block (the edges the pages...
- 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...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
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