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Some Famous American Schools
by Adams, Oscar Fay
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Dustjacket
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About This Item
Boston: Dana Estes & Company, 1903. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing.. Boston: Dana Estes & Company, 1903. First Edition, First Printing. Very Good/no dust jacket . First Edition decorated American trade binding (signed binding - monogram AMS on cover - Amy M. Sacker). Red cloth boards with orange, blue and black decoration on cover, small blue and black decoration on spine. Tiny spots of wear to corners. Some pages have very faint water mark to top or bottom page edges. Binding is tight, pages and edges are clean with clean blank endpapers - no names, writing or bookplates. Frontispiece photo of St. Paul's School with tissue guard. Many full page photographic illustrations of schools throughout the book. Preface by the author. 341 pages. Descriptions and photographs of nine American preparatory schools, their history and scholastics..
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- Bookseller
- Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 027866
- Title
- Some Famous American Schools
- Author
- Adams, Oscar Fay
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Dustjacket
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing.
- Publisher
- Dana Estes & Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1903
- Keywords
- AMERICAN PREPARATORY SCHOOLS, PRIVATE SCHOOLS IN AMERICA, OSCAR FAY ADAMS, FIRST EDITION, DECORATED TRADE BINDING, DATB, HISTORY OF EDUCATION AMERICANA, SIGNED BINDING
- Bookseller catalogs
- Americana; Education; Decorated American Trade Binding;
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