Indianapolis: The Bowen-Merrill Company, 1900. Historical fiction, published 1900, concerning a young girl on the northwestern frontier and Vincennes (now part of Indiana) during Revolutionary times. Illustrated in black and white. Green cloth lettered in gilt and black with an illustration of a fortification on the front cover, printed in gilt, white, brown and blue, 420 pages plus advertisements. Some cover wear, mainly rubbing to the corners and spine ends, a bit of wrinkling to the spine, good hinges, clean pages free from names or other markings. There are no loosened pages, but the text block bows out a bit so that the outer page edges are in line with the covers and are not recessed as they would normally be. A clean and attractive copy.. Hard Cover. Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

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Bookseller: Resource Books, LLC (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 005648
Title: Alice of Old Vincennes
Author: Thompson, Maurice. Illustrated By F. C. Yohn
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Good
Publisher: The Bowen-Merrill Company
Place of Publication: Indianapolis
Date Published: 1900
Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7&
Keywords: HISTORICAL FICTION INDIANA AMERICAN HISTORY
Bookseller catalogs: Fiction, Literature, Poetry, Literary History;

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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....
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....
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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...
Rubbing: Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
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...
12mo: A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...