PURITAN OLIGARCHY: The Founding of American Civilization
by Wertenbaker, Thomas Jefferson
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good+ to Very Good-/Good
- Seller
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Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
New York/London: Charles Scribner's Sons/Charles Scribner's Sons Ltd., 1947. 360 pp. Original red cloth covers lightly rubbed w/ faint sunning to bottom edges. Spine ends bumped. Bottom corners a bit frayed. Small price label on rear paste-down. Edges of leaves a bit age toned. DJ moderately rubbed w/ wear, tear, and chipping to edges. Illust. w/ b/w photos.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good+ to Very Good-/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Shoemaker Booksellers (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 6556
- Title
- PURITAN OLIGARCHY: The Founding of American Civilization
- Author
- Wertenbaker, Thomas Jefferson
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+ to Very Good-
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Charles Scribner's Sons/Charles Scribner's Sons Ltd.
- Place of Publication
- New York/London
- Date Published
- 1947
- Keywords
- AMERICAN HISTORY UNITED STATES AMERICAN AMERICANA CIVILIZATION MASSACHUSETTS STATE HISTORY MA COLONIAL PERIOD CA. CIRCA 1600 1775 RELIGION GOD CHRISTIANITY JESUS CHRIST PURITANS PURITANISM CHURCH AND STATE NEW ENGLAND STATES NONFICTION GENERAL
- Bookseller catalogs
- Religion;
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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About the Seller
Shoemaker Booksellers
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Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
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Glossary
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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
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...