The Covered Bridge: An Old American Landmark
by Congdon, Herbert Wheaton
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good
- Seller
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Stanley, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1946. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Stated first Borzoi Edition in original unclipped dust jacket, with 1954 color picture postcard of covered bridge laid in. Clean burgundy cloth boards with gold lettering on spine. No bumping, fading or wear. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound. Pages are clean with clean endpapers - no names, writing or marks. Illustrated with 100 photographs by Edmund Homer Royce, including color frontispiece 151 pages with Index. Jacket is not price clipped, has light soiling/fading, several short closed edge tears. .
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- Bookseller
- Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 034945
- Title
- The Covered Bridge: An Old American Landmark
- Author
- Congdon, Herbert Wheaton
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1946
- Keywords
- covered bridges, New England, Vermont, Herbert Wheaton Congdon, Americana
- Bookseller catalogs
- Americana; New England;
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- 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...