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Boy Scouts in a Motor Boat or Adventures on the Columbia River
by Ralphson, G Harvey
- Used
- poor
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Poor/No Jacket
- Seller
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Greensboro, North Carolina, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Chicago: M. A. Donohue and Co., 1912. Hardcover. Poor/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 8vo. 246, (7) pages. Hardcover in brown cloth with red, white, and black illustrations. Binding is foxed, has damping and scuffs. Spine is toned, has damping. Headcap/foot are bumped, has light fraying. Text block is shaken. Illustrated endpapers. 1 inch long tear at top of front gutter. Text is toned, has occasional smudges.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Pages Past Used and Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 050268
- Title
- Boy Scouts in a Motor Boat or Adventures on the Columbia River
- Author
- Ralphson, G Harvey
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Poor
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- M. A. Donohue and Co.
- Place of Publication
- Chicago
- Date Published
- 1912
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Weight
- 1.00 lbs
- Keywords
- 1912; G Harvey Ralphson; Children's Book; Boy Scouts; Columbia River
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children's Books; Americana;
Terms of Sale
Pages Past Used and Rare Books
14 day return guarantee, with full refund if an item arrives mis-described or damaged. Buyer pays return shipping.
About the Seller
Pages Past Used and Rare Books
Biblio member since 2017
Greensboro, North Carolina
About Pages Past Used and Rare Books
Pages Past is a small used & rare bookshop located a few blocks from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Since 1996 we have been serving the Triad community as well as customers from around the world. We have around 15-20,000 volumes in our shop. We specialize in North Carolina, Virginia, Civil War, Old Leather, Christianity, Eastern and Western Philosophies, and the simply unusual. We very likely have the oldest books in Greensboro; we keep a nice selection of antiquarian volumes and scholarly books.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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....
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Gutter
- The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
- Shaken
- A hardcover in which the text block is loose, but still attached to the binding.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
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