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Fisher's River (North Carolina) Scenes and Characters
by Skitt; [Harden E. Taliaferro]
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Greensboro, North Carolina, United States
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About This Item
New York: Harper & Brothers, Pubslishers, 1859. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. John M'Lenan. 12mo. 269, [4] pages. TITLE PAGE IN FACSIMILE. Hardcover bound in original blue publisher's cloth with spine titles in gilt and cover designs in blind. The binding is worn and bumped and has some fraying and tearing at the spine ends. A couple of nicks on the spine are touched up with blue. A sound copy with secure inner hinges. Appears to have two identical facsimile title pages tipped in (consequently lacking the original title; the frontis is NOT in facsimile). The text has some moderate foxing throughout. An early owner's blind stamped name is on the first page of the text. There is a folding newspaper article pasted onto the rear pastedown. Collates complete with all illustrations, including the frontis. A scarce volume of 19th century humor looking at the people and stories of Surry County, North Carolina. Hardin Edward Taliaferro (1811-1875) was a southern American humorist and Baptist preacher born near Pine Ridge in Surry County, North Carolina. He was raised in Surry County, but he moved to Tennessee and Alabama and spent much of his life as a Baptist preacher in Alabama. This is his most famous book and is drawn on the people and places in old Surry County.
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- Bookseller
- Pages Past Used and Rare Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 044451
- Title
- Fisher's River (North Carolina) Scenes and Characters
- Author
- Skitt; [Harden E. Taliaferro]
- Illustrator
- John M'Lenan
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition First Printing
- Publisher
- Harper & Brothers, Pubslishers
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1859
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- 1859; Skitt; Harden E. Taliaferro; Surry County; North Carolina; Mt. Airy; History; Fisher's River; 19th Century; Rare; Humor; Humorous; Illustrated.
- Bookseller catalogs
- North Carolina; General Antiquarian & Rare; North Carolina Literature;
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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.
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- Publisher's cloth
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- 12mo
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- Facsimile
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- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- 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...
- Tipped In
- Tipped In is used to describe something which has been glued into a book. Tipped-in items can include photos, book plates,...
- 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....
- First Edition
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