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Captain Sam, or The Boy Scouts of 1814
by Eggleston, George Cary
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good+/No Jacket
- Seller
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League City, Texas, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1876. 1st ed. . Hardcover. Good+/No Jacket. 212 pages. Adventures in Florida and the Gulf of Mexico preceeding the Battle of New Orleans. Written for young readers as part of the Big Brother Series. Bright dark blue cloth-covered boards with black title and gilt illustration on front, and gilt title on spine. Illustrated with several b/w drawings. First edition with 1876 (1876). Good+/No Jacket. Tight binding, solid hinges. Two owner names, one dated Dec. 25, 1877, and one dated Sep. 16, 1878. Impression of both sides of an 1880 one dollar coin on last blank page. Light wear to extremities. Item #: E3704.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Schroeder's Book Haven
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- E3704
- Title
- Captain Sam, or The Boy Scouts of 1814
- Author
- Eggleston, George Cary
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Publisher
- G.P. Putnam's Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1876
- Pages
- 212
- Keywords
- Young Readers Adventure Classics Literature Decorative Binding War of 1812 Battle New Orleans
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About the Seller
Schroeder's Book Haven
Biblio member since 2003
League City, Texas
About Schroeder's Book Haven
We are an Open Shop located in the Historic District of League City, Texas, midway between Houston and Galveston. We have served Colleges and Libraries since 1967 and opened to the Public in 1992 in a renovated c.1911 house built by Judge J.S. Scott and his wife, Pearl. Our Store specialty is Texana, both new and out-of-print. We also have a good selection of General Stock, with emphasis in Western Americana, Art, Architecture and History. We provide complete ordering services for in-print titles and diligently search for the hard-to-find or out-of-print title you desire. Feel free to visit our shop Tues-Fri 10-6; Thurs Noon-8, Sat 10-4 Central Time. Closed Sunday & Monday.
Glossary
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- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
- G
- Good describes the average used and worn book that has all pages or leaves present. Any defects must be noted. (as defined by AB...
- 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
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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