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Our New West: Records of Travel Between the Mississippi River and the Pacific Ocean
by Bowles, Samuel
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 1125637315
- ISBN 13
- 9781125637319
- Seller
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Chicago, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
Hartford Publishing Co. Used - Very Good. 1869. Cloth with gilt stamped lettering and decoration, bevelled edges. 8vo. xx & 524 pp. Illustrated. Some shelf wear and scuffing to boards, with mild chipping to tail of spine. Corners bumped. Previous owner's inscription to flyleaf. Some foxing to early pages, main text clean, bright, and unmarked. Altogether a copy in Very Good condition. (Subject: Americana & Regional History.)
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- Bookseller
- Powell's Bookstores Chicago
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- Q18235
- Title
- Our New West: Records of Travel Between the Mississippi River and the Pacific Ocean
- Author
- Bowles, Samuel
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 1125637315
- ISBN 13
- 9781125637319
- Publisher
- Hartford Publishing Co
- This edition first published
- 1869
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- 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...
- 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...
- 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....
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- 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...