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The West Point Scrap Book: a Collection of Stories, Songs and Legends of the United States Military Academy. with Original Illustrations
by Wood, Oliver Ellsworth
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fair with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Northridge, California, United States
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About This Item
NY: D. Van Nostrand Company. Fair with no dust jacket. 1871. First Edition. Hardcover. Original gilt-titled pebbled cloth. First edition. Possible ex-library; plates have been removed from pastedowns. Spine cracked, few signatures loose. Occasional small stains/creasing. Tissued frontis. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 339; 18 ads pages .
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- Seller
- curtis paul books inc.
(US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 45744
- Title
- The West Point Scrap Book: a Collection of Stories, Songs and Legends of the United States Military Academy. with Original Illustrations
- Author
- Wood, Oliver Ellsworth
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair with no dust jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- D. Van Nostrand Company
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1871
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Northridge, California
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- 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....
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Pebbled
- Pebbled cloth or leather describes the covering of a hardcover book with a decorative texture of repeated small raised bumps,...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
- 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...
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