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Memorial Sketches Written of Many Friends: Published in the Essex County Herald. From time to time through a quarter century
by Dale, George Needham; Dale, Porter Hinman (compiler)
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Stone Mountain, Georgia, United States
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About This Item
Island Pond, VT: Essex County Herald Press, 1903. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Octavo. [8] pages, 384 pages., [6] pages. Illustrated. Green cloth hardcover with author's gilt stamped initials and wreath on the front cover. Gilt title on the spine. Frontispiece photograph of the author. Illustrated with occasional photograph portraits. Front and rear hinges are cracked. Newspaper clipping regarding Augustus W. Boworth pasted down on the verso of the last photograph portrait page following page 384. Presentation inscription written on the right front flyleaf reads, "Presented to Edward Moore by Timothy Dale - April 10th, 1911.
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- Bookseller
- Americana Books ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 13158
- Title
- Memorial Sketches Written of Many Friends
- Author
- Dale, George Needham; Dale, Porter Hinman (compiler)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Essex County Herald Press
- Place of Publication
- Island Pond, VT
- Date Published
- 1903
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Stone Mountain, Georgia
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Americana Books in business since 1993 specializing in American History and Americana. Member ABAA ( Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America)
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- Gilt
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- Octavo
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- Cloth
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- Cracked
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- First Edition
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- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
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