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The Missouri
by Vestal, Stanley
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
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About This Item
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1945. First edition. Hardcover. Getler Smith. 368pp. Octavo [21 cm] Green cloth with the title gilt stamped on a lavender ink stamped panel on the backstrip. Illustrated endsheets. Good only. Mildly bumped and darkened at the extremities. The spine is a bit slanted, the front hinge is weak, and the text block is cracked at the beginning. The dust jacket is in good condition only as well. The edges have a handful of closed tears and losses. The longest closed tear is 3" long. Age-toned and lightly rubbed. Twenty-sixth volume in 'The Rivers of America series'. Illustrated by Getlar Smith. Fitzgerald M7.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 38904
- Title
- The Missouri
- Author
- Vestal, Stanley
- Illustrator
- Getler Smith
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Farrar & Rinehart
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1945
- Keywords
- Rivers of America; Montana; North Dakota; South Dakota; Nebraska; Iowa; Kansas; Missouri River
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA
Biblio member since 2006
Salt Lake City, Utah
About Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA
Ken Sanders Rare Books is a full service antiquarian bookshop in downtown Salt Lake City, Utah. We carry an ever-changing inventory of art, ephemera, maps, photography, and postcards in addition to a vast selection of used and rare books along with a few new books. We actively purchase and appraise books in all fields.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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....
- 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...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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,...
- 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...
- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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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