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The Franco - Texan Land Company
by Taylor, Virginia H
- Used
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Scottsdale, Arizona, United States
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About This Item
Austin, TX, (1969): University of Texas Press. First Edition. Octavo. 331pp. Illustrated, folding map. The French in Texas: A story of a railroad in northwest Texas. Despite its unsavory history, the Franco-Texan Land Company furthered the development of Northwest Texas by bringing into the area by hundreds of French immigrants. The impact of the French on the Texas frontier and the lives of some of the more prominent immigrants are intertwined with the history of the company. Bound in beige cloth, spine lettered and decorated in black and gilt. near fine copy in very good clipped pictorial dust jacket with light chipping along the edges of the rear panel and some rubbing.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Alcuin Books, ABAA-ILAB
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 028110
- Title
- The Franco - Texan Land Company
- Author
- Taylor, Virginia H
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- University of Texas Press
- Place of Publication
- Austin, TX, (1969)
- Keywords
- Railroad, Southwest, Texas, French Immigrants
- Bookseller catalogs
- Texas;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Alcuin Books, ABAA-ILAB
Biblio member since 2006
Scottsdale, Arizona
About Alcuin Books, ABAA-ILAB
Alcuin Books located in Old Town Scottsdale is a store with 15,000 serious books for the collector or scholar. We have ample parking in front of the store for those who wish to browse our holdings.
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- 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....
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- First Edition
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- Octavo
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- Cloth
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- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
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