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TWENTY YEARS OF KANSAS CITY'S LIVE STOCK TRADE AND TRADERS
by POWELL, CUTHBERT
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Light Wear/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
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Prairie Village, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
Kansas City, Missouri: Pearl Publishing Company, 1893. Spine lettered in gilt. "Powell" on spine denoting second issue. Some light wrinkling of the cloth at top and bottom of spine. See photo. Slight fraying of spine extremities. Front free endpaper loosened and laid-in. A clean and crisp copy. Chapters on the packing industry, various animal in the stock yards, Biographicala sketches and photographs of many of the early traders. A very scarce book on the history of the Kansas City stockyards and its inhabitants, man and animal. 340pp. + 5 pages of adverts at conclusion. Cited in Howes P-523 and Herd 1827.. First Edition, Second Issue. Black Blind-stamped Cloth.. Light Wear/No Dust Jacket. Octavo.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Glenn Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 014278
- Title
- TWENTY YEARS OF KANSAS CITY'S LIVE STOCK TRADE AND TRADERS
- Author
- POWELL, CUTHBERT
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Light Wear
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition, Second Issue
- Publisher
- Pearl Publishing Company
- Place of Publication
- Kansas City, Missouri
- Date Published
- 1893
- Size
- Octavo
- Keywords
- Western Americana, Cattle, Cattle Trade, Kansas City History, Cattlemen, Live Stock Trade
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.
Glossary
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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...
- Cloth
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- First Edition
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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....
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- Crisp
- A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...
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