The Torrens System: Its Simplicity, Serviceability and Success
by Cameron, A. Guyot
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good +/Good
- Seller
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Hardwick, Massachusetts, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1915 Black cloth; gilt spine lettering. The Torrens System, "which has been adopted, in whole or in part, in eleven states, with increasing benefit to the owners of property and homes," is explained through this presentation of sixteen articles which appeared as a series in "The Wall Street Journal." Title and facing page bear light, neatly-rectangular shadows of previously laid-in items. Otherwise clean, tight, and unworn in a moderately edgeworn (tiny spine chips; two short, closed tears) dust jacket with neat clear tape reinforcement/mending to most of upper edge and lower extremities. Very light soil to jacket.
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- Bookseller
- The Curiosity Book Shop (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 13524
- Title
- The Torrens System: Its Simplicity, Serviceability and Success
- Author
- Cameron, A. Guyot
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good +
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1915
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7&
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