TAVERNS AND STAGECOACHES OF NEW ENGLAND
by FORBES, ALLAN
- Used
- Paperback
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Light edge and Corner Wear/No Jacket
- Seller
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Prairie Village, Kansas, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Boston: State Street Trust Company, 1953. "Anecdotes and tales recalling the days of stagecoach travel and ancient hostelries where strangers tarried". Bottom 3/4" missing at foot of spine. Illustrated. Chapters on the pleasant and unpleasant side of the stagecoach, signboard humor, old Cambridge taverns, and much more! Laid-in is a typed, signed letter in envelope from the author. 121pp.. First Edition. Blue Illustrated Wrappers. Light edge and Corner Wear/No Jacket. Octavo.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Glenn Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 013824
- Title
- TAVERNS AND STAGECOACHES OF NEW ENGLAND
- Author
- FORBES, ALLAN
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Light edge and Corner Wear
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- State Street Trust Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1953
- Size
- Octavo
- Keywords
- Boston, Americana, Taverns, Stagecoaches
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Glenn Books
Biblio member since 2005
Prairie Village, Kansas
About Glenn Books
We are an antiquarian bookshop established in 1933. We are members of ABAA and ILAB.
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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...
- 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....
- Wrappers
- The paper covering on the outside of a paperback. Also see the entry for pictorial wraps, color illustrated coverings for...
- Laid-in
- "Laid In" indicates that there is something which is included with, but not attached to the book, such as a sheet of paper. The...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...