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The Hollow-Tile House. A Book Wherein the Reader is Introduced to Hollow-Tile in the Making, is told how it is wroght into Houses and is shown how these Houses look and from what Foreign Ancestry their Appearance is an Heritage. Its Key-note is tuned to the Concert-pitch of Progress
by Squires, Frederick
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Greensboro, North Carolina, United States
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About This Item
New York: The William T. Comstock Co., 1913. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Quarto. 208 pages. Hardcover bound in original green cloth with front cover designs in red and white. Housed in a modern clear mylar or plastic jacket. Moderate rubbing and wear to the binding. A sound copy. The inner hinges have been reinforced with Japanese tissue. Color frontis. The text is illustrated with black and white photos and drawings. Text is clean. Scarce.
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- Bookseller
- Pages Past Used and Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 047862
- Title
- The Hollow-Tile House. A Book Wherein the Reader is Introduced to Hollow-Tile in the Making, is told how it is wroght into Houses and is shown how these Houses look and from what Foreign Ancestry their Appearance is an Heritage. Its Key-note is tuned to the Concert-pitch of Progress
- Author
- Squires, Frederick
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition First Printing
- Publisher
- The William T. Comstock Co.
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1913
- Size
- 4to - over 9¾ - 12"
- Weight
- 2.90 lbs
- Keywords
- 1913; Frederick Squires; Hollow Tile House; Hollow-Tile; Rare; Collectible; Architecture; History; Historic; Homes; Buildings.
- Bookseller catalogs
- Engineering; Architecture;
Terms of Sale
Pages Past Used and Rare Books
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About the Seller
Pages Past Used and Rare Books
Biblio member since 2017
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.
Glossary
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- Quarto
- The term quarto is used to describe a page or book size. A printed sheet is made with four pages of text on each side, and the...
- 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...
- 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.
- 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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