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All Over Oregon and Washington. Observations on the Country, Its Scenery, Soil, Climate, Resources, and Improvements, etc
by Victor, Mrs. Frances Fuller
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
-
Portland, Oregon, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
San Francisco: John H. Carmany & Co, 1872. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition with matching dates. Hardcover with beveled boards, full rust cloth binding with blindstamped decorative frame and gilt lettering and decoration to front cover and spine, rear cover blindstamped with front design, 9-1/8" tall, 368 pp. Very light wear and bumping to edges, gift inscription dated 1872, a 1955 newspaper article and cartoon about Frances Fuller Victor affixed to rear endpapers. There are several plants pressed between the pages with minimal ghosting, a few scattered words underlined or margin lines.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Crooked House Books & Paper
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- s02337
- Title
- All Over Oregon and Washington. Observations on the Country, Its Scenery, Soil, Climate, Resources, and Improvements, etc
- Author
- Victor, Mrs. Frances Fuller
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- John H. Carmany & Co
- Place of Publication
- San Francisco
- Date Published
- 1872
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- pnw oregon
- Bookseller catalogs
- Oregon/Pacific Northwest;
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Crooked House Books & Paper
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About the Seller
Crooked House Books & Paper
Biblio member since 2005
Portland, Oregon
About Crooked House Books & Paper
Welcome to the Crooked House, a one-of-a-kind bookstore in Portland, Oregon. Specializing in the beautiful and unusual: books by, for and about women, cookery, domestic science, decorative publishers bindings, weird how-to books and ephemera, 1920s-30s women's magazines, Modern Library, and more.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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...
- 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Beveled
- Beveled edges, or beveled boards, describe a technique of binding in which the edges of book boards have been cut into slanted...
- 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...
- 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...
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