Poor Will's Almanack, For the Year 1805 [provenance: James Pemberton Parke (b. 1783)]
- Used
- very good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Lansdowne, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
Philadelphia: James Crukshank, 1804. Paperback. Very Good. [48] p.: tables; 11 cm. Contemporary wrapper with embossed floral decoration; stitched. Early American Imprints, 2nd Series (Shaw & Shoemaker), 7085. Drake, Almanacs, 10690. The owner had it taken apart and rebound with 14 blank leaves alternating with the first 8 leaves and the final 8 leaves, and with a wrapper made from paper with embossed floral decoration. Former owner's name on first blank leaf: James P. Parke. Notations about the weather are on the blank pages facing the pages for Jan., Feb., March, and Dec. The other added blank leaves are blank. James Pemberton Parke (b. 1783) was a bookseller in Philadelphia. Scarce. In Very Good Condition: added wrapper is rubbed along edges, with minor loss at ends of spine; wrapper starting to separate from tail; pages are clean and tight.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Classic Books and Ephemera (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 007871
- Title
- Poor Will's Almanack, For the Year 1805 [provenance: James Pemberton Parke (b. 1783)]
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- James Crukshank
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia
- Date Published
- 1804
- Bookseller catalogs
- Ephemera; Pennsylvania;
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About the Seller
Classic Books and Ephemera
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Lansdowne, Pennsylvania
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Rebound
- A book in which the pages have been bound into a covering replacing the original covering issued by the publisher.
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- 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...
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