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Life Explorations and PublicService of John Charles Fremont
by Charles Wentworth Upham
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair/none
- Seller
-
Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Nice to have in library. Hardcover w/heavy lean. No Jacket as issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" First edition, later printing ('forty-fifth thousand'). Fair in original dark blue cloth stamped in gilt and blind (spine chipped, tears and repairs, lacks rear endpaper, boards rubbed, foxing & offsetting to plates and text). Illustrated. 356pp.12mo. Book condition: Good. Backstrip is faded, spine is rolled and ends are bumped and chipped. Endsheets are foxed and have former owner original but faded writing.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Rendezvous Books & Art
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- MM1-06
- Title
- Life Explorations and PublicService of John Charles Fremont
- Author
- Charles Wentworth Upham
- Format/Binding
- Drk blue cloth w/gold print on spine
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Jacket Condition
- none
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st edition, later printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Ticknor and Fields
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1856
- Pages
- 356
- Size
- 8vo
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- mountain men, upham, fremont
- Bookseller catalogs
- History; Americana-Old West; Rendezvous Mountain Men;
Terms of Sale
Rendezvous Books & Art
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Rendezvous Books & Art
Biblio member since 2017
Baton Rouge, Louisiana
About Rendezvous Books & Art
A small family online store specializing in Historical Americana, History, Pulps, Science Fiction, Vintage hardcovers and paperbacks, Collectibles.
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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...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- 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....
- Rolled
- rolled spine or spine rolled. Damage to a book created by pressure to the spine making it fold or crease in the cover. Damage...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
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