BLITHE DUTCHESS: The Flowering of an American County from 1812
by MacCracken, Henry Noble
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very good
- Seller
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Cadyville, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: Hastings House, 1958.. 1958.. Very good. - Octavo, navy blue cloth titled in gilt on the spine, in a dust wrapper. The book is slightly cocked. The dust jacket is soiled & lightly spotted with the spine slightly darkened & the top edge chipped. There is a short tear & a crease to the top edge of the rear panel. x & 500 pages with an errata slip mounted on the rear endpaper. There is an owner's inscription on the half-title & the endpapers are lightly foxed with light offsetting to the front endpaper. Illustrated with black-and-white vignettes & with a folding map in a pocket mounted on the rear pastedown. Very good in a good dust wrapper. <p>First edition.<p>Signed by the author on the half-title.
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- Bookseller
- Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd.
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 4788
- Title
- BLITHE DUTCHESS: The Flowering of an American County from 1812
- Author
- MacCracken, Henry Noble
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- New York: Hastings House, 1958.
- Date Published
- 1958.
- Keywords
- NEW YORK STATE; UPSTATE NEW YORK; DUTCHESS COUNTY; HISTORY; HENRY NOBLE MACCRACKEN; SIGNED; SIGNATURE; AUTOGRAPH; ILLUSTRATIONS; MAP; FIRST EDITION; 1ST EDITION.
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Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd.
Payment with order from individuals. Items are offered subject to prior sale. All purchases are subject to your approval, returnable within 10 days. New York State residents please add sales tax to your purchases. All items are guaranteed authentic and as described.
About the Seller
Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd.
Biblio member since 2003
Cadyville, New York
About Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd.
Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd. (incorporated 1989) is a general antiquarian book store which buys and sells collections and individual items of significance. Booksellers Ric Zank and Daniel Meunier each bring to the business over 18 years of experience in seeking out and offering for sale unusual, uncommon and rare books, autographs, and ephemera in all fields. Our office is open 7 days a week from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and frequently later. An answering machine will take your message after hours and when we are out of the office.
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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....
- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
- Jacket
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Errata
- Errata: aka Errata Slip A piece of paper either laid in to the book correcting errors found in the printed text after being...
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- 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...
- 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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