North Carolina and its Resources. Illustrated.
by State Board of Agriculture
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
-
Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
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About This Item
Winston (Winston-Salem), NC: M. I. & J. C. Stewart, 1896 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. Large 8vo. xv (iii), 413 pp. Includes 9 color plates, including a fold-out state map at back and 56 b&w illustrations. Foxed along top edge with lightly age-toned text block edges, and light edgwear , mostly at head & tail spine and fore-edge tips. Newspaper clippings glued to front endpapers with elegantly ruled exerps from "Be Not Overcome With Sorrow," A Bit of Advice," and "On the Way." on blank pages. Clean, tight and strong binding with no underlining, highlighting or marginalia. Green cloth with bevelled boards, gilt decorated floral pattern and lettering to front board and spine..
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Details
- Bookseller
- West Side Book Shop, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001038
- Title
- North Carolina and its Resources. Illustrated.
- Author
- State Board of Agriculture
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- M. I. & J. C. Stewart
- Place of Publication
- Winston (Winston-Salem), NC
- Date Published
- 1896
- Keywords
- U.S. HISTORY REGIONAL NORTH CAROLINA NATURAL RESOURCES COMMERCE
- Bookseller catalogs
- U. S. HISTORY;
- Size
- Large 8vo
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About the Seller
West Side Book Shop, ABAA
Biblio member since 2006
Ann Arbor, Michigan
About West Side Book Shop, ABAA
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Glossary
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- First Edition
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- Marginalia
- Marginalia, in brief, are notes written in the margins, or beside the text of a book by a previous owner. This is very...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
- 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
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- 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....
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