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History of the Townships of Dartmouth, Preston and Lawrencetown; Halifax County, N.S. (Akins Historical Prize Essay) [Nova Scotia, Canada]
by Lawson, Mrs. William; (Mary Jane Katzmann; Edited by Harry Piers
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fair/No Jacket
- Seller
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Greensboro, North Carolina, United States
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About This Item
Halifax, N.S.: Morton & Co., Provincial Book Store, 1893. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Octavo. 260 pages, indexed. Hardcover bound in red cloth with cover lettering and rules in gilt. The binding is rubbed and worn, and the fore edges of both covers have been damped. Inner hinges secure. Endpapers foxed, and the front flyleaf has a couple of prior owners' signatures. The text is toned and has a few stains as well as some browning on two pages where a piece of ephemera had been laid in loosely (now laid in at the front of the book). Frontis portrait of the author; no other illustrations.
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- Pages Past Used and Rare Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 047857
- Title
- History of the Townships of Dartmouth, Preston and Lawrencetown; Halifax County, N.S. (Akins Historical Prize Essay) [Nova Scotia, Canada]
- Author
- Lawson, Mrs. William; (Mary Jane Katzmann; Edited by Harry Piers
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition First Printing
- Publisher
- Morton & Co., Provincial Book Store
- Place of Publication
- Halifax, N.S.
- Date Published
- 1893
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Weight
- 1.50 lbs
- Keywords
- 1893; Mrs. William Lawson; Nova Scotia; Canada; North America; History;
- Bookseller catalogs
- Americana; Travel; World History;
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Greensboro, North Carolina
About Pages Past Used and Rare Books
Pages Past is a small used & rare bookshop located a few blocks from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Since 1996 we have been serving the Triad community as well as customers from around the world. We have around 15-20,000 volumes in our shop. We specialize in North Carolina, Virginia, Civil War, Old Leather, Christianity, Eastern and Western Philosophies, and the simply unusual. We very likely have the oldest books in Greensboro; we keep a nice selection of antiquarian volumes and scholarly books.
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- Gilt
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- Foxed
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- Jacket
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