The Chagres: River of Westward Passage
by MINTER, John Easter
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Galena, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
New York: Rinehart & Company, 1948. Hardcover. Illustrations by William Wellons. 8vo. Grey cloth, pictorial dust jacket. xiv, 418pp. Line drawings. Good plus/very good. Mild jacket edgewear and rubbing, with spine rather sunned and abrasion near foot; mild ex-library copy, with very few and mostly-removed markings; front flyleaf a discreet replacement. Tight, quite presentable and decent first edition of this volume in the "Rivers of America" series.
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Details
- Seller
- Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 19669
- Title
- The Chagres: River of Westward Passage
- Author
- MINTER, John Easter
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Rinehart & Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1948
- Bookseller catalogs
- Books; Americana;
Terms of Sale
Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA
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About the Seller
Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA
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Galena, Illinois
About Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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...
- 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....
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...