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SOME OLD TIME MEETING HOUSES OF THE CONNECTICUT VALLEY
by Wight, Charles Albert
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Yarmouthport, Massachusetts, United States
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About This Item
Minister of the Congregational Church, 1911. First Edition. hard cover. Very Good. Chicopee Falls, MA: Minister of the Congregational Church. [1911]. First Edition. 144 pp. Hardcover, no jacket. Illustrated with b/w photographs. Deckled fore-edge. Very Good- conditon. Maroon cloth boards with gilt titling and decoration are moderately worn and bumped. There is a partial white paper sticker glued at the base of the spine. Owner name pencilled to ffep. There are a few light foxing spots on the title page. Otherwise the interior is clean and unmarked. Binding is secure. The story of meeting houses constructed in the Connecticut Valley between 1780 and 1850. (cfm)
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- Bookseller
- Parnassus Book Service
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 20198
- Title
- SOME OLD TIME MEETING HOUSES OF THE CONNECTICUT VALLEY
- Author
- Wight, Charles Albert
- Format/Binding
- Hard cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Minister of the Congregational Church
- Date Published
- 1911
- Keywords
- MEETING HOUSES, CONNECTICUT, WIGHT, COLONIAL
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- Title Page
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- Cloth
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- 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...
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- 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
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