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The Wisconsin: River of a Thousand Isles
by Derleth, August
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/Fair
- Seller
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Beloit, Wisconsin, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1942. 18th in the Rivers of America series. First printing, with publisher's 'FR' mark on copyright page. Hardcover, full pale green cloth blocked in green, gilt titling. General wear to book, spine foxed & spotted with light mottling to covers; minor tear to free endsheet where it stuck to front paste-down - a binding error; jacket rubbed, torn, heavily edgeworn with large chips, some scuffing; pages 338/9 tanned from old newspaper clipping since discarded. Text clean; xi, [3], 366 pages; index, bibliography, map, b/w illustrations.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Fair. Illus. by John Steuart Curry. 5¾" by 8¼".
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- r0994
- Title
- The Wisconsin: River of a Thousand Isles
- Author
- Derleth, August
- Illustrator
- John Steuart Curry
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Farrar & Rinehart
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1942
- Keywords
- Rivers of America, Americana, Wisconsin, Fur Trade, Lumber, Logging, Great Lakes, Mississippi
- Size
- 5¾" by 8¼"
Terms of Sale
Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
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About the Seller
Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
Biblio member since 2006
Beloit, Wisconsin
About Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
Most of our stock is on-line only, though we have many books in three booths at Angela's Attic Antique Mall, 1020 Gardner Street in South Beloit, Illinois; a booth across the street at the Best of Beloit; and a large booth at the Lake Geneva Antique Mall, 829 Williams Street, Lake Geneva, WI. You may request to see any of our on-line inventory at any location with a few days' notice.
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- Cloth
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- Copyright page
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- Paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
- 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...
- 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....
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
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