OLD ROADS FROM THE HEART OF NEW YORK: Journeys Today By Ways of Yesterday - Within Thirty Miles Around the Battery
by COMSTOCK, SARAH
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good +/No Jacket
- Seller
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Pointe Claire, Quebec, Canada
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About This Item
New York - London - Paris: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1915. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good +/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Type: Book 401 pp., + two large fold-out map at the rear, bound in bordeaux cloth with a round b/w medaillon of a farm house and gilt-stamped titling on front board and black-stamped spine, teg. Illustrated throughout with 100 b/w phototypes on semi-gloss paper plates including annotated tissue-guarded frontispice. Charming book that shows the country of yester-years and its tells the story of its roads, some in sharp contrast to what we may see today. VG(slightly scuffed edges spine ans corners of boards, paper lightly yellowed, otherwise super clean and tight copy) In custom-made high gauge mylar DJ.Photo scan available upon request. Books sold to the USA are shipped USPS out of Champlain NY.
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- Bookseller
- Odyssey Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1601H
- Title
- OLD ROADS FROM THE HEART OF NEW YORK: Journeys Today By Ways of Yesterday - Within Thirty Miles Around the Battery
- Author
- COMSTOCK, SARAH
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good +
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- G. P. Putnam's Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York - London - Paris
- Date Published
- 1915
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9&
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Americana. Geography. History. Travel
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Odyssey Books
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Pointe Claire, Quebec
About Odyssey Books
We have been an established bookstore since 1986 but are operating from home now as we have closed the store for retirement.
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