Washington The National Capital
by Caemmerer, H. Paul
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- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
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About This Item
Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1932. First edition. Presentation edition to Willis Van Devanter, Associate Justice US Supreme Court, with his name in gold emboss on cover, Washington Post chief diplomatic correspondent Chalmers M. Roberts copy, with his dated signature (1947) on fly leaf. Published Washington, D.C.: US Government Printing Office, 1932, first printing. Folio, 10" x 11 3/4", 736pp., illustrated with hundreds of b/w plates. Mild foxing along edges and endpapers, several pages with pencil bracketing, one plate removed and reattached with binders tape, spine cloth bit faded, else very good. . 1st. Hard. Very Good/No Jacket. Folio.
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- The Wild Muse (US)
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- 005611
- Title
- Washington The National Capital
- Author
- Caemmerer, H. Paul
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- 1st
- Publisher
- Government Printing Office
- Place of Publication
- Washington, D.C.
- Date Published
- 1932
- Keywords
- DEVANTER WILLIS VAN ROBERTS CHALMERS M.
- Bookseller catalogs
- American History & Americana;
- Size
- Folio
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