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THE MAINE BUSINESS DIRECTORY FOR 1887 Index to Mercantile, Manufacturing & Professional Interests
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- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+
- Seller
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Fairfield, New Jersey, United States
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About This Item
Boston, Mass: Briggs & Co.. Very Good+. 1887. First Edition. Hardcover. Clean paper covered boards, black cloth spine with gilt lettering. Paper edges lightly rubbed. Text tight, clean & intact. Numerous pictorial advertisements. New England; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 668 pages .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Nick Bikoff, Bookseller
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 11534
- Title
- THE MAINE BUSINESS DIRECTORY FOR 1887 Index to Mercantile, Manufacturing & Professional Interests
- Author
- Unknown
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Briggs & Co.
- Place of Publication
- Boston, Mass
- Date Published
- 1887
- Keywords
- New England
- Bookseller catalogs
- Business; New England;
Terms of Sale
Nick Bikoff, Bookseller
Books are conservatively described. Full refund within 20 days. Books mailed upon notification of sale. Books sold by direct payment to bookseller will be shipped after receipt of check or notice of payment through paypal. If your book are heavy or oversized, we may contact you for additional shipping. All books/ephemera are securely packaged to assure safe arrival at their destination. All books for sale are in-stock on premises.
About the Seller
Nick Bikoff, Bookseller
Biblio member since 2005
Fairfield, New Jersey
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About Nick Bikoff, Bookseller
Nick Bikoff and his wife Fran have been buying and selling quality books and ephemera since 1989 when they attended the "Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar" at the University of Denver. They offer a broad based selection of used, rare, and out-of-print stock ranging from the sixteenth to the twentieth century.
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
- New
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- 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...
- 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
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
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