Reminiscences of Chicago During the Forties and Fifties
by McIlvaine, Mabel (Intro)
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine with No dust jacket as issued
- Seller
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Palatine, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
Chicago: R. R. Donnelley & Sons / The Lakeside Press. Near Fine with No dust jacket as issued. 1913. First Edition Thus. First Printing. Hard Cover. Publisher's full green cloth, gilt lettering on spine, gilt border and publisher's medallion, gilt, on cover, t.e.g., fore-edge deckle. Illustrated with tissue-protected frontispiece drawing of Chicago in 1853.. Former owner's signature on ffep, otherwise unmarked. Tight, square, clean, and seemingly unread. NEAR FINE. . The Lakeside Classics Series. Vol. 11. B&W Illustrations. 12mo 7" - 7½" tall. xxxi, (ii), 140 pp .
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- Bookseller
- Round Table Books, LLC (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 8456
- Title
- Reminiscences of Chicago During the Forties and Fifties
- Author
- McIlvaine, Mabel (Intro)
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine with No dust jacket as issued
- Edition
- First Edition Thus. First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- R. R. Donnelley & Sons / The Lakeside Press
- Place of Publication
- Chicago
- Date Published
- 1913
- Keywords
- Lakeside Classics;, Rare Books;, Chicago;, Chicago History;, Early Chicago History;, Memoirs;
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About the Seller
Round Table Books, LLC
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Palatine, Illinois
About Round Table Books, LLC
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- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- 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...