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Tract Number 3377 a romance of the oil region
by Higgins, George H. & Margaret Higgins Haffey
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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San Francisco, California, United States
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About This Item
Boston: C. M. Clark Pub. Co, 1909. Hardcover. 382p., frontispiece with chipped tissue-guard & 7 glossy b&w plates from drawings, some foxing including a bit on the fourth plate, rubbing and wear else fair first edition in green cloth boards , dull gilt spine titles and green and yellow titles and decorations on front cover. Higgins died leaving the manuscript and his sister finished the book. Autobiographical fiction set in Pennsylvania. Watson 204 and Wax pg. 190.
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- Bookseller
- Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 267845
- Title
- Tract Number 3377 a romance of the oil region
- Author
- Higgins, George H. & Margaret Higgins Haffey
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- C. M. Clark Pub. Co
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1909
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern first edition; 1900S; Labor - American; Pennsylvania;
Terms of Sale
Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB
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About the Seller
Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB
Biblio member since 2005
San Francisco, California
About Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB
Established in 1981 in San Francisco, we specialize in books and ephemeral materials related to the history of Labor and other social movements, including the struggles for Black and Chicano equality, the Gay liberation movement, Feminism, and Asian-American activism, as well as the Far Right. In recent years Bolerium has expanded into materials in non-western languages, especially from East Asia, and has also placed more emphasis on ephemera, with tens of thousands of original leaflets, pamphlets, and posters in stock. You can sign up for free email lists in our subject areas at www.bolerium.com. We are located in San Francisco at 2141 Mission, Suite 300 (between 17th & 18th St.). We're open by appointment only..
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- Fair
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- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- 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...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- PUB
- Common abbreviation for 'published'
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