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A History of Catawba County
by Preslar, Charles J., Jr., Editor
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- Good
- Hardcover
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- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
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Greensboro, North Carolina, United States
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About This Item
Salisbury, North Carolina: Catawba County Historical Association, Inc./ Rowan Printing Company, 1954. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Large octavo. 526 pages, indexed. Hardcover bound in blue cloth. There is moderate wear to the binding, which is significantly rubbed and has several small soil marks, particularly along the spine. The edges are bumped. Corners are beginning to fray. Outer edges of the text block are toned. Endpaper maps of Catawba County are toned and foxed. Endpaper maps have a small tear in the front gutter. There is light foxing to the remaining endpapers, which also have a few stray pencil marks. There is occasional light spotting throughout the text. Text is toned but clean and sound. Illustrated with drawings and photographs.
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- Pages Past Used and Rare Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 051593
- Title
- A History of Catawba County
- Author
- Preslar, Charles J., Jr., Editor
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Catawba County Historical Association, Inc./ Rowan Printing Company
- Place of Publication
- Salisbury, North Carolina
- Date Published
- 1954
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
- Weight
- 2.10 lbs
- Keywords
- 1954; Charles J. Preslar, Jr.; Catawba County, North Carolina; Genealogy; Geneology; North Carolina History; American South; County History.
- Bookseller catalogs
- North Carolina; Genealogy;
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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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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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....
- Gutter
- The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
- Text Block
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