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American Institutions and Their Influence. School Teacher's Library Series
by Tocqueville, Alexis de. Notes By John C. Spencer
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair
- Seller
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East Granby, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
New York: A. S. Barnes, 1855. Title page dated 1855. School Teacher's Library series. Blue textured cloth with gilt spine lettering, advertising endpapers, frontis engraving, 460 pages. Covers rubbed, mainly at the corners, good hinges, firm text block, foxing to endpapers and front blanks, frontis age-browned, pages very white and clean, old name stamp on first preliminary blank, no other markings.. Hard Cover. Fair. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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- Bookseller
- Resource Books, LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 035271
- Title
- American Institutions and Their Influence. School Teacher's Library Series
- Author
- Tocqueville, Alexis de. Notes By John C. Spencer
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Publisher
- A. S. Barnes
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1855
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Keywords
- AMERICAN HISTORY FOREIGN PERSPECTIVE GOVERNMENT POLITICS
- Bookseller catalogs
- American History and Biography; Education, Schools, Colleges, Text & Lesson-Books;
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Resource Books, LLC
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About the Seller
Resource Books, LLC
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East Granby, Connecticut
About Resource Books, LLC
Resource Books, LLC deals in antiquarian and out-of-print books in a wide variety of subject matter, mainly non-fiction.
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- Fair
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- Title Page
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- Gilt
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- Cloth
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- 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....
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