Roger Wolcott
by Lawrence, William
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No
- Seller
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East Granby, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1902. First edition, 1902. Biography of this Massachusetts native and former Governor of the Commonwealth, from boyhood through his education at Harvard, his political life and administration as Lieutenant Governor and Governor, on to his role in the Spanish-American War and up to 1902. Also includes a chapter on his ancestry. Illustrated with black and white portraits. Dark blue cloth lettered in gilt, tissue-protected sepiatone frontis portrait of Wolcott, 238 pages. Light rubbing to the corners and spine ends, a bit of light soil to the top edge, good hinges, sound text block, very clean pages free from names or other markings.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
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- Bookseller
- Resource Books, LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 014838
- Title
- Roger Wolcott
- Author
- Lawrence, William
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1902
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7&
- Keywords
- MASSACHUSETTS BIOGRAPHY GOVERNOR SPANISH AMERICAN WAR
- Bookseller catalogs
- American History and Biography;
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Resource Books, LLC
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About the Seller
Resource Books, LLC
Biblio member since 2004
East Granby, Connecticut
About Resource Books, LLC
Resource Books, LLC deals in antiquarian and out-of-print books in a wide variety of subject matter, mainly non-fiction.
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- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- 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...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
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