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Boston and the Boston Legend
by Beebe, Lucius
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very good
- Seller
-
Jupiter , Florida, United States
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About This Item
New York: Appleton-Century Company, 1935. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. E. H. Sade. 8vo (36 x 23 cm). 372 pp. Blue cloth covers, dark blue cloth spine with gilt titles to upper and spine. Pasted on B/W illustration to upper. PO owner name (1942) to front free endpaper with 2 cm DJ bleeding to all endpapers. Color frontispiece. Rest of text block tight and unmarked. Unclipped DJ with wear to edges and corners. 1 cm missing to head and tail of spine. In Mylar.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Liberty Book Store ABAA FABA IOBA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2730
- Title
- Boston and the Boston Legend
- Author
- Beebe, Lucius
- Illustrator
- E. H. Sade
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Appleton-Century Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1935
Terms of Sale
Liberty Book Store ABAA FABA IOBA
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Liberty Book Store ABAA FABA IOBA
Biblio member since 2012
Jupiter , Florida
About Liberty Book Store ABAA FABA IOBA
Liberty Book Store, ABAA, FABA, IOBA, with offices in Jupiter Florida, is an online (and by appointment) antiquarian bookstore that BUYS and SELLS RARE and INTERESTING BOOKS. Our primary interests are the American Antebellum period, Association Copies, Automotive, Books With A Story, Floridiana, Maritime History, RR Donnelley bindings, and books of exceptional beauty or scarcity.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- 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...
- 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....
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
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