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ASTORIA, OR ANECDOTES OF AN ENTERPRISE BEYOND THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS (TWO VOLUMES)
by Irving, Washington
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good / Very Good
- Seller
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Eugene, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
New York: C.P. Putnam's Sons, 1897. Hardcover. Very Good / Very Good. Two volume set. Octavo, 8.9 in. x 6 in., pp. (Vol I) xxi, [3] 389; (Vol II) xvi, [2], 391. The "Tacoma Edition." Illustrated with many black and white engravings and photographs on heavy paper, with captioned tissue-guards. Cream cloth-covered boards with decorative feather and arrowhead design, and gilt title, to front and spine. Gilt topstain. Rough trimmed fore- and bottom-edges. Light rubbing to extremities. Fingerprint smudges to boards. Previous owner's bookplates to front pastedowns. Second previous owner's signature to front flyleaf of Volume I only. Age-toning to pages. Original silk ribbons worn and laid in. Contemporary burgundy cloth dustjackets with gilt title to spine. Light fraying and rubbing to top and bottom edges of cloth dustjackets. Stories told by the great American short-story writer about John Jay Astor's adventures west of the Rocky Mountains.
Bookplate displays a drawn scorpion and the name "Allen + Margery Boyden." The Margery Davis Boyden Wilderness Writing Residency" in southwestern Oregon nurtures nature writers on a 92-acre ranch in the forest of the Klamath Mountains.
Bookplate displays a drawn scorpion and the name "Allen + Margery Boyden." The Margery Davis Boyden Wilderness Writing Residency" in southwestern Oregon nurtures nature writers on a 92-acre ranch in the forest of the Klamath Mountains.
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- Bookseller
- Aardvark Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 86308
- Title
- ASTORIA, OR ANECDOTES OF AN ENTERPRISE BEYOND THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS (TWO VOLUMES)
- Author
- Irving, Washington
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good / Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- C.P. Putnam's Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1897
- Keywords
- American short stories, Oregon history, westward expansion, WESTERN AMERICANA
- Bookseller catalogs
- AMERICANA;
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- Octavo
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- Gilt
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- Edges
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- Cloth
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- Bookplate
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- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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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