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History of Alaska 1730- 1885
by Hubert Howe Bancroft
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fine/No Jacket
- Seller
-
Gleneden Beach, Oregon, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
San Francisco: A. L. Bancroft & Company, 1886. Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. Bancroft's amazing work capturing the history of Alaska from 1730 to 1885, 33 chapters and 775 pages, totally complete, book rebound with tasteful brown hard back boards with gilt spine title, previous owners very tasteful bookplate on front pastedown, book tight and square and flawless, map included as well as all drawings, first day Alaska cover lighly affixed to second front free paper, removable, marbled page edges and a very solid and presentable copy, custom light brown slipcase included. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Pacific Coast Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000095
- Title
- History of Alaska 1730- 1885
- Author
- Hubert Howe Bancroft
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- A. L. Bancroft & Company
- Place of Publication
- San Francisco
- Date Published
- 1886
- Keywords
- Bancroft, Alaska, History
Terms of Sale
Pacific Coast Books
10 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 10 days after delivery if an item arrives mis-described or damaged.
About the Seller
Pacific Coast Books
Biblio member since 2015
Gleneden Beach, Oregon
About Pacific Coast Books
Pacific Coast Books specializes in quality of books of interest from our store on the Central Oregon Coast. We are proud members of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America and have been buying and selling books for almost 20 years. Visit our website at www.Pacifc CoastBooks.net. Please feel free to call or email with any titles you would like to add to your collection. Only a small fraction of our inventory is online. We buy book collections.
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- 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...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- 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....
- Rebound
- A book in which the pages have been bound into a covering replacing the original covering issued by the publisher.
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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