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A Hoosier Chronicle
by Nicholson, Meredith
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+/No Dustjacket
- Seller
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Stanley, New York, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1912. Book. Illus. by F. C. Yohn, Illustrator. Very Good+. Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing.. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1912. First Edition, First Printing. Very Good+/No Dust jacket. F. C. Yohn, Illustrator. Decorated signed binding ("H"). Clean brown cloth boards with gold lettering and stamped dark brown decoration on cover and spine. Hint of light surface wear at spine corners, very light scuff to front board. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean, with clean endpapers; no names, writing or marks. Color frontis illustration with clean tissue guard; 3 additional color plates -- all by F. C. Yohn. 606 pages + advertising. 8-page small illustrated publisher's brochure laid in featuring promotional reviews of "The Latest Fiction," including this title. A story of Indiana life, considered by some to be Meredith Nicholson's greatest book..
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- Bookseller
- Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 021145
- Title
- A Hoosier Chronicle
- Author
- Nicholson, Meredith
- Illustrator
- F. C. Yohn, Illustrator
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- No Dustjacket
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing.
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1912
- Keywords
- FICTION, NOVEL, MEREDITH NICHOLSON, FIRST EDITION, F. C. YOHN, DECORATED AMERICAN TRADE BINDING, DATB
- Bookseller catalogs
- Antiquarian; Decorated American Trade Binding;
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Edges
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- Jacket
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- First Edition
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- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- 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
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