Home Town Sketches.
by Paillou, Emile R
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Fair
- Seller
-
Kanab, Utah, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Stratford Company; Boston; 1926., 1926 First edition with dustcover. Dark blue cloth-covered boards, gilt spine and front board lettering, 7 1/2 x 5 3/8 inches, 328 pp., frontispiece photo-illustration of author. Book very good plus. Dustcover fair (substantial chipping; stain, front panel; still presentable, and now under mylar). A scarce book, rare with dustcover in any condition. "Home Town Sketches, probably the only book of its kind, contains intimate sketches of interesting people and quaint characters who live or lived in the little Missouri town of Boonville during the period of 1870 to 1900. The author knows his home town thoroughly and has drawn for his contemporaries and for posterity pen pictures that will endure, showing characters and conditions now rapidly becoming obsolescent. Dr. Paillou uses the actual names of his former fellow citizens, thus enhancing the local interest without decreasing that of the general reader. This book is of especial interest to that large number of people who have the small town background." (3214016). 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Fair.
Reviews
(Log in or Create an Account first!)
Details
- Bookseller
- Boojum and Snark Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2967
- Title
- Home Town Sketches.
- Author
- Paillou, Emile R
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Stratford Company; Boston; 1926.
- Date Published
- 1926
- Keywords
- MISSOURI, BOONVILLE, RURAL, UNITED STATES HISTORY
- Bookseller catalogs
- History;
Terms of Sale
Boojum and Snark Books
Books returnable within two weeks of receipt if not as described and if returned in the same condition in which they were sent. Ask for return authorization before returning. Call or email to hold.
About the Seller
Boojum and Snark Books
Biblio member since 2003
Kanab, Utah
About Boojum and Snark Books
General antiquarian and out-of-print books. Specializing in medicine, history of medicine, science, technology and technical books.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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...
- 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...
- 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....
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....