EARLY CALIFORNIA COSTUMES, 1769-1847, AND HISTORIC FLAGS OF CALIFORNIA
by Mackey, Margaret Gilbert and Louise Pinkney Sooy
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- Seller
-
Covina, California, United States
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About This Item
Stanford University, California: Stanford University Press, 1932. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 25 plates, including the frontispiece. Octavo. Original pebbled black cloth binding, with gilt-stamped titles on the front. Previous owner's ink signature to the front pastedown, with her small ink stamp to the bottom edge and the vestiges of a removed label to the rear pastedown. The dust jacket is browned, with some general edgewear, including two thumbnail-size chips, and tape reinforcement to the verso; otherwise about very good.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Johnson Rare Books & Archives (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 59253
- Title
- EARLY CALIFORNIA COSTUMES, 1769-1847, AND HISTORIC FLAGS OF CALIFORNIA
- Author
- Mackey, Margaret Gilbert and Louise Pinkney Sooy
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Place of Publication
- Stanford University, California
- Date Published
- 1932
- Keywords
- California
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About the Seller
Johnson Rare Books & Archives
Biblio member since 2008
Covina, California
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- Pebbled
- Pebbled cloth or leather describes the covering of a hardcover book with a decorative texture of repeated small raised bumps,...