Harrisburg, PA: Clarence M. Busch, 1897. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Thus. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Magenta pebbled cloth, spine panel lettered in gilt. Modest shelf wear, cloth unevenly faded with sunned spine panel, text block edges a bit toned by age. Firm binding, intact hinges, clean interior. 168,392 pp., large folding map detailing the Purchase of 1784 by J. Sutton Wall with accompany article on the purchase and the various border disputes between Pennsylvania and New York and Connecticut, also a complete inventory of border monuments enumerating 519 monuments along the parallel boundary and 51 along the meridian boundary ("Detailed Description of Monuments on the Boundary Line between New York and Pennsylvania," pp. 41-139), followed by a shorter article on the boundary line between Delaware, Maryland, and Pennsylvania..

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Bookseller: Saucony Book Shop (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 041409
Title: Annual Report of the Secretary of Internal Affairs of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, for the Year Ending November 30, 1896 [with "Detailed Description of Monuments on the Boundary Line between New York and Pennsylvania"
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good
Jacket Condition: Not Issued
Edition: First Thus
Publisher: Clarence M. Busch
Place of Publication: Harrisburg, PA
Date Published: 1897
Bookseller catalogs: New York State; Pennsylvania: Central & Western PA;
Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

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Terms of Sale: All orders are processed on a first-come, first-served basis. Full refund on any misrepresented item(s) within 30 days of purchase date. Returned books must arrive in the same condition as they were sent. We use standard ABAA grading and terminology, and we will gladly respond to pre-purchase queries. Payment: Visa, MasterCard, PayPal, check, money order, cash. Happy hunting!

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The Saucony Book Shop, located in the heart of scenic rural Berks County, epicenter of Pennsylvania German folk culture (our shop specialty), offers a full range of gently used, rare, and antiquarian books, with many volumes of scholarly merit and an unabashed emphasis on the quaint, the curious, and the utterly obscure. We make no attempt to be a general-service book shop. Our inventory is highly selective, individually chosen from among the hundreds of thousands of books to which we have access annually at auctions, library and estate sales, and through individual scouts and vendors. We do not handle material that does not meet our expectations in terms of condition or interest to our specialized, idiosyncratic customers. Despite maintaining a browsing inventory of more than 15,000 volumes, we have minimized our carbon footprint by maintaining our entire operation in a cozy ca. 1890 barn and lean-to adjacent to an historic creamery in rural Maxatawny Township. Our shop is available for browsing by appointment and occasionally, in temperate weather, by chance, so email or call ahead to peruse the eclectic selection gracing our shelves, or ask our ferociously over-read staff for recommendations. Selling antiquarian books of merit since 1981. Full search and appraisal services; always keenly interested in purchasing quality used books, whether by the piece or by the bushel. Thanks for reading about us! Go placidly amid the noise and haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence.

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Sunned: Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
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...
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
New: A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
Shelf Wear: Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
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...
Pebbled: Pebbled cloth or leather describes the covering of a hardcover book with a decorative texture of repeated small raised bumps,...
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....