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James Monroe (American Statesmen)
by Gilman, Daniel C
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
-
Greensboro, North Carolina, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1883. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. 12mo. 287, (16) pages indexed. Hardcover in blue cloth. The binding is rubbed, has spotting Spine is rubbed, has sunning. Bumping and fraying at headcap/foot. Top edge gilt. Second front flyleaf has prior owner's name written on it,"JMH Seaman(sp?) Sheboygan WI 1883" A sound copy with secure inner hinges. Text is toned.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Pages Past Used and Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 051277
- Title
- James Monroe (American Statesmen)
- Author
- Gilman, Daniel C
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Houghton, Mifflin and Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston and New York
- Date Published
- 1883
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾
- Weight
- 1.00 lbs
- Keywords
- 1883; Daniel C Gilman; John T. Morse; James Monroe; Americana; First Edition; Collectible; American Statesmen; 19th Century; Rare; Biography
- Bookseller catalogs
- Americana; Biography;
Terms of Sale
Pages Past Used and Rare Books
14 day return guarantee, with full refund if an item arrives mis-described or damaged. Buyer pays return shipping.
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.
Glossary
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Top Edge Gilt
- Top edge gilt refers to the practice of applying gold or a gold-like finish to the top of the text block (the edges the pages...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
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