The Virgin Islands: A Carribean Lilliput
by Lewis, Gordon K
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
-
Greensboro, North Carolina, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Evanston: Northwestern Press, 1972. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 8vo. 382 pages, indexed. Hardcover quarter bound in green cloth with faux marbled paper covered boards. Binding has light foxing. Map illustrated endpapers. Prior owner's bookplate on recto of front flyleaf. Text is clean.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Pages Past Used and Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 050144
- Title
- The Virgin Islands: A Carribean Lilliput
- Author
- Lewis, Gordon K
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Northwestern Press
- Place of Publication
- Evanston
- Date Published
- 1972
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Weight
- 3.50 lbs
- Keywords
- 1972; Gordon K. Lewis; Virgin Islands; Carribean; History; African; West Indies
- Bookseller catalogs
- African-American; Travel; World History;
Terms of Sale
Pages Past Used and Rare Books
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About the Seller
Pages Past Used and Rare Books
Biblio member since 2017
Greensboro, North Carolina
About Pages Past Used and Rare Books
Pages Past is a small used & rare bookshop located a few blocks from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Since 1996 we have been serving the Triad community as well as customers from around the world. We have around 15-20,000 volumes in our shop. We specialize in North Carolina, Virginia, Civil War, Old Leather, Christianity, Eastern and Western Philosophies, and the simply unusual. We very likely have the oldest books in Greensboro; we keep a nice selection of antiquarian volumes and scholarly books.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Marbled Paper
- Decorative colored paper that imitates marble with a veined, mottled, or swirling pattern. Commonly used as the end papers or...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Recto
- The page on the right side of a book, with the term Verso used to describe the page on the left side.