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Colonial Chesapeake Society
by Carr, Lois Green; Morgan, Philip D.; Russo, Jean B
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0807818003
- ISBN 13
- 9780807818008
- Seller
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Greensboro, North Carolina, United States
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About This Item
Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1988. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Octavo. 511 pages, indexed. Hardcover in yellow illustrated dust jacket. The jacket has minimal wear, although the jacket spine is a little sunned. Top edge is foxed. Front flyleaf has some small indention marks. Half title page has the signature of Lindley Butler, a North Carolina Historian. A sound copy with clean text. The prior owner had put a couple of post-it notes at the top edges of some pages, but there are no markings in the text itself. Contains a few maps and a couple of genealogical charts, mainly of the Carter family of Virginia.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Pages Past Used and Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 047901
- Title
- Colonial Chesapeake Society
- Author
- Carr, Lois Green; Morgan, Philip D.; Russo, Jean B
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition First Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0807818003
- ISBN 13
- 9780807818008
- Publisher
- The University of North Carolina Press
- Place of Publication
- Chapel Hill
- Date Published
- 1988
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Keywords
- 1988; Lois Green Carr; Philip D. Morgan; Jean B. Russo; Colonial; Virginia; Chesapeake; Maryland; History; Americana; Lindley Butler; Maps; Genealogy; Genealogical; Carter Family.
- Bookseller catalogs
- Americana; Americana--The South; Virginia;
- X weight
- 2.5 lb
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Pages Past Used and Rare Books
Biblio member since 2017
Greensboro, North Carolina
About Pages Past Used and Rare Books
Pages Past is a small used & rare bookshop located a few blocks from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Since 1996 we have been serving the Triad community as well as customers from around the world. We have around 15-20,000 volumes in our shop. We specialize in North Carolina, Virginia, Civil War, Old Leather, Christianity, Eastern and Western Philosophies, and the simply unusual. We very likely have the oldest books in Greensboro; we keep a nice selection of antiquarian volumes and scholarly books.
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- Sunned
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- Half Title
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- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- 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
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- Jacket
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- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
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