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Look at America: The Central Northwest
by Wallace Stegner; Look Magazine
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fine/good +
- Seller
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Gridley, California, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1947. Early printing. Hardcover. Fine/good +. Fine early printing in a good+ dust jacket. Green cloth boards with green and yellow stamping on cover and spine. Dust jacket has several tiny closed tears and shelf wear, bottom front corner missing small amount of jacket. Profusely illustrated, including a fold-out map of the region. Early printing 1947 (same as copyright date) as determined from ads for current and forthcoming books. 393 numbered pp., incl. index. Octavo, 5 1/2 x 8 inches tall. From the jacket: "the finest collection of photographs", road maps, appendices, and expert-written text. This volume covers Idaho, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wyoming, Colorado, Nebraska, Kansas, and Nevada.
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- Bookseller
- Uncommon Works
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- AME-02
- Title
- Look at America: The Central Northwest
- Author
- Wallace Stegner; Look Magazine
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- good +
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Early printing
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1947
- Keywords
- travel, maps, geography, Northwest, Central states, united states, guidebook
- Bookseller catalogs
- Geography & Travel;
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About the Seller
Uncommon Works
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Glossary
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- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
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