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AUTOBIOGRAPHY of an ENGLISH SOLDIER in the UNITED STATES ARMY comprising Observations and Adventures in the States and Mexico
by [Ballentine, George] 03f
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- FAIR book. Boards identically edge ruled around floral designs.
- Seller
-
Lyndonville, New York, United States
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About This Item
NY: Stringer & Townsend. FAIR book. Boards identically edge ruled around floral designs.. 1853. 1st Am ed.. Hardcover. FAIR book. GOOD text block. Brown cloth, Gilt spine lettering & profile of soldier. Frontis & extra engraved tp. 8vo, 288pp. . Clean but very worn. No loose pages. Internally no soiling or damp staining but moderate aging & foxing. Cover edges & extrems very worn. Hinges holding by the cords only. A nice rebind candidate utilizing existing boards & spine. Owner name inked on tp: "Addie Harvey, Cincinnatus NY", Cincinnatus being the Society of the Cincinnati. Undated but could be contemporary as the ink has turned brown. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Quiet Friends
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 002679
- Title
- AUTOBIOGRAPHY of an ENGLISH SOLDIER in the UNITED STATES ARMY comprising Observations and Adventures in the States and Mexico
- Author
- [Ballentine, George] 03f
- Illustrator
- Frontis, extra engraved tp.
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - FAIR book. Boards identically edge ruled around floral designs.
- Edition
- 1st Am ed.
- Publisher
- Stringer & Townsend
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1853
- Keywords
- FAIR book. GOOD text block. Brown cloth, Gilt spine lettering &, profile of soldier. Frontis & extra engraved tp. 8vo, 288pp., Mexican war, Scott
Terms of Sale
Quiet Friends
Visa, M/C, MO, Check. Shipping is free for a "regular" weight book. But for heavier books, and multi volume sets, we ask for any additional postage. Basically we pay the first $3.
About the Seller
Quiet Friends
Biblio member since 2008
Lyndonville, New York
About Quiet Friends
We sell about 75% internet, 25% book fairs. We have been in business since the early 90's. We pack extremely well. We describe very conservatively and have only a few returns in the 5000 orders we have mailed.
Glossary
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- 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...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- 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....
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