Tales of the Mississippi
by Samuel, Ray; Huber, Leonard V and Ogden, Warren C
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good in Good dust jacket
- Seller
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Horsham, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
New York: Hastings House Publishers,. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1955. First Edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very good tan cloth boards, dark brown lettering to the spine, 11.25 x 8.25 inches approx. , coloured pictorial dust jacket some chipping and rubbing to extremities, not price clipped, no inscriptions, fully illustrated throughout in black & white and sepia tones. ; 240 pages .
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 14121
- Title
- Tales of the Mississippi
- Author
- Samuel, Ray; Huber, Leonard V and Ogden, Warren C
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover with dust jacket
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Good dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Hastings House Publishers,
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1955
- Keywords
- Paddlesteamers, Mississippi Riverboats, Riverboats, Rivers, Maritime, Topography, Boats, River Transport, Transport
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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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
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