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The Tennessee. Volume 1. The Old River: Frontier to Secession (Rivers of America)
by Davidson, Donald
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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Cleveland, Ohio, United States
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About This Item
New York: Rinehart & Company, 1946. Green-blue cloth in mylar protected dust-jacket, gilt title, embossed board, (8.25 x 5.75 inches), 342 pages with Bibliography and Index; illustrated. First Edition/First Printing in the exceedling SCARCE First-State Dust Jacket, (with all points called for by Fitzgerald bibliography). Volume 33 (31) in the notable and collectable Rivers of America series. This being a true a First Printing of the First Edition. The first-state dust jacket blurb contains an error which was caught by the author in an advance copy. The distribution was stopped until jacket corrected with only a small number of review copies in first-state jacket already being distributed. Some light expected toning and wear, previous owner's signature, else a clean, tight copy in a lightly worn unclipped ($3.00) jacket. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Theresa Sherrer Davidson. Octavo.
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- Bookseller
- Books & Bidders, Antiquarian Booksellers
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 005411
- Title
- The Tennessee. Volume 1. The Old River: Frontier to Secession (Rivers of America)
- Author
- Davidson, Donald
- Illustrator
- Theresa Sherrer Davidson
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Rinehart & Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1946
- Keywords
- Rivers of America
- Size
- Octavo
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Cleveland, Ohio
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Glossary
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
- 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...
- Blurb
- The blurb refers to the commentary that appears on the dust jacket flaps or the rear of the dustjacket. In the case of a...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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