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TUSKEGEE & ITS PEOPLE: THEIR IDEALS AND ACHIEVEMENTS
by Washington, Booker T. [editor]
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Rockville, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1910. First Edition, Fifth Printing. Hardcover. Octavo; viii, 354 pages; G+; full cloth binding with gilt titling to spine and front cover; some shelfwear to covers, including a small dent to the fore edge of the front cover, scuffs, fraying to head and tail of spine; and a few large chips to the spine; textblock lightly scratched but clean; ex libris Charles P Groves on front pastedown, endpaper and first two pages fully detached, ink name to ffep; mild foxing throughout; black and white images throughout, including a photographic frontispiece of Washington; ink stamp reading "Printed in the U.S.A." to copyright page; small closed tear to page v; small circular stain outside of text from pages viii through list of illustrations; small pencil X to the margins of pages 136, 263; mild staining in upper fore edge corner of pages 308 and 311; dog ear fold to "Students Canning Fruit" plate and page 309; printed mark on page 354 reading "(5)" to indicate fifth printing; rear pastedown fully torn from textblock to expose webbing; shelved below front counter. 1362537. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Second Story Books, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1362537
- Title
- TUSKEGEE & ITS PEOPLE: THEIR IDEALS AND ACHIEVEMENTS
- Author
- Washington, Booker T. [editor]
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, Fifth Printing
- Publisher
- D. Appleton and Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1910
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About the Seller
Second Story Books, ABAA
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Rockville, Maryland
About Second Story Books, ABAA
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Fore Edge
- The portion of a book that is opposite the spine. That part of a book which faces the wall when shelved in a traditional...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- 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...
- 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...
- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
- 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....
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
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