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HISTORY OF THE ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH
by Field, Henry M
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
-
Fairfield, New Jersey, United States
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About This Item
New York: Charles Scribner & Co.. Very Good. 1866. First Edition. Hardcover. Ex-Lib. Clean green cloth has bright gilt title on spine. Pictorial frontispiece. Line drawing illustrations. Text's interior is tight, clean and intact. A few very lightly foxed pages. Library bookplate & Ink stamp. Lightly rubbed spine ends. Business; Ex-Library; Drawings; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 364 pages .
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- Seller
- Nick Bikoff, Bookseller
(US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 15941
- Title
- HISTORY OF THE ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH
- Author
- Field, Henry M
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Charles Scribner & Co.
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1866
- Keywords
- Business
- Bookseller catalogs
- Business;
Terms of Sale
Nick Bikoff, Bookseller
Books are conservatively described. Full refund within 20 days. Books mailed upon notification of sale. Books sold by direct payment to bookseller will be shipped after receipt of check or notice of payment through paypal. If your book are heavy or oversized, we may contact you for additional shipping. All books/ephemera are securely packaged to assure safe arrival at their destination. All books for sale are in-stock on premises.
About the Seller
Nick Bikoff, Bookseller
Biblio member since 2005
Fairfield, New Jersey
About Nick Bikoff, Bookseller
Nick Bikoff and his wife Fran have been buying and selling quality books and ephemera since 1989 when they attended the "Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar" at the University of Denver. They offer a broad based selection of used, rare, and out-of-print stock ranging from the sixteenth to the twentieth century.
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- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- 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....
- 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...
- 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...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- 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...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
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