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The Car That Went Abroad Motoring Through the Golden Age
by Paine, Albert Bigelow, Illustrated by Hale, Walter
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Staten Island, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1921, 1921. Hardcover, cloth spine over boards with pictorial paste-down on cover. No Jacket. 341 pages. First Edition. The story of the author's post WWI tour of Europe by automobile. Stamp on end-papers indicating ex library from Canadian military post. Boards show old stains and wear. Internally clean. A tight, sound copy. Good.. Hardcover. Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
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- Seller
- Great Expectations Rare Books
(US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 000436
- Title
- The Car That Went Abroad Motoring Through the Golden Age
- Author
- Paine, Albert Bigelow, Illustrated by Hale, Walter
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Publisher
- New York: Harper & Brothers, 1921
- Date Published
- 1921
- Keywords
- AUTOMOBILE TRAVEL, EARLY AUTOMOBILE, TRAVEL HALE, WALTER
- Bookseller catalogs
- Travel By Automobile;
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Great Expectations Rare Books
Biblio member since 2005
Staten Island, New York
About Great Expectations Rare Books
We carry a general stock of antiquarian books with a focus on Charles Dickens, 19th and 20th century literature, history and biography.
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- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
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