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The Passenger Pigeon
by Mershon, W.B
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/No DJ - Leather Bound
- Seller
-
Dearborn, Michigan, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
The Outing Publishing Co, 1907-01-01. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/No DJ - Leather Bound. Leather Bound Hardcover, First Edition 1907 Outing Publishing 225 pages. Fine, in custom leather binding. Maroon leather boards with gilt spine titles and border accents - corners sharp. 4 raised bands to the spine. Marbled endpapers and deckled edges. All nine plates are present and unmarked. (three are in color and have the tissue guard) There are no previous owner markings - all pages are bright, clean and crisp. Previous owner had this marvelous first edition tastefully rebound in maroon leather to last several more lifetimes. A magnificent volume. LOC FB-01
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Details
- Bookseller
- Eyebrowse Books - MWABA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 180818003
- Title
- The Passenger Pigeon
- Author
- Mershon, W.B
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No DJ - Leather Bound
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- The Outing Publishing Co
- Date Published
- 1907-01-01
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Eyebrowse Books - MWABA
Biblio member since 2007
Dearborn, Michigan
About Eyebrowse Books - MWABA
We are an online, phone and snail mail bookseller.Our books don't need batteries or a license to read. Selling books on-line since 2004. CABS graduate in 2009. Member MWABA since 2013. Excellent customer service, quick shipping, and an assortment of great books. The majority of our inventory is non-fiction general stock with an emphasis on transportation (air, rail, auto), exploration, and military history. We also have hundreds of Vintage Paperbacks that are for the most part not listed online. Eyebrowse Books is always looking for and buying good quality books. We may be reached via e-mail, phone and snail mail. I sincerely appreciate all our customers, new as well as returning ones, and strive every day to present them the most interesting books I can find.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Raised Band(s)
- Raised bands refer to the ridges that protrude slightly from the spine on leather bound books. The bands are created in the...
- LOC
- Library of Congress
- 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...
- Rebound
- A book in which the pages have been bound into a covering replacing the original covering issued by the publisher.
- 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....
- 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...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
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