A SHORT HISTORY OF THE CITY OF PHILADELPHIA, FROM ITS FOUNDATION TO THE PRESENT TIME
by Coolidge, Susan
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good-/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
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Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
Boston, MA: Roberts Brothers, 1887. 288 pp. Original gray cloth covers w/ gilt title on spine. Binding lightly soiled; spine a bit darkened. Corners and spine ends bumped. Light foxing to edges of text block. Previous owner's name stamp, and evidence of some type of small label removed, on front endpaper; "no. 13" written on front paste-down. Neat inscription to previous owner on front blank endpaper. Otherwise, contents nice.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good-/No Dust Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
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- Bookseller
- Shoemaker Booksellers
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 25043PA
- Title
- A SHORT HISTORY OF THE CITY OF PHILADELPHIA, FROM ITS FOUNDATION TO THE PRESENT TIME
- Author
- Coolidge, Susan
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good-
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Roberts Brothers
- Place of Publication
- Boston, MA
- Date Published
- 1887
- Keywords
- AMERICANA PENNSYLVANIA STATE HISTORY PA LOCAL DESCRIPTION AND TRAVEL PHILADELPHIA EARLY SETTLEMENTS QUAKER COLONY AMERICAN HISTORY UNITED STATES NONFICTION GENERAL
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....
- 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....
- 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...
- 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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