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Diary of an Early American Boy: Noah Blake 1805
by Sloane, Eric
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Providence, Rhode Island, United States
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About This Item
New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1962. Hardcover. Very Good. Sloane, Eric. 4to. 108 pp. Grey cloth in pictorial peach dust jacket. DJ lightly soiled, spine discolored, with chipping to edges and corners. Front flap price-clipped with small sticker remnant. Moderate foxing to boards, especially at edges and spine, text block top edge, and endpapers. Signed by Sloane at top of half title in black marker, dated 1970. Interior very clean, illustrated throughout, with fold out map at center.
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- Bookseller
- small volume
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 400
- Title
- Diary of an Early American Boy: Noah Blake 1805
- Author
- Sloane, Eric
- Illustrator
- Sloane, Eric
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Funk & Wagnalls
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1962
- Keywords
- Sloane, illustrated, diagram, usa, america, us history, colonial, fold out map, settler
Terms of Sale
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Providence, Rhode Island
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- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- Half Title
- The blank front page which appears just prior to the title page, and typically contains only the title of the book, although, at...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- 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...
- 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....
- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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