A HOUSE CALLED MORVEN: ITS ROLE IN AMERICAN HISTORY, 1701-1954
by Bill, Alfred Hoyt
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Good-/No Jacket
- Seller
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Princeton, New Jersey, United States
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About This Item
Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1954. In collaboration with Walter E. Edge, with an essay on the architecture by George B. Tatum. "The traveler entering or leaving Princeton, New Jersey, by way of Stockton Street (Route U.S. 206) may easily miss seeing the fine colonial mansion that stands on the north side of the road two or three hundred yards to the west of that street with Nassau. ... But the mansion deserves much more than the slight glimpse that the passer-by can get of it." 206 pp. with index. Blue cloth covers with gilt title on spine. Missing DJ. Cover corners are rubbed, front lower corner has significant damage and is missing with tears to cloth, light scuffing to covers, spine ends are bent and worn. Cocked spine. Gift inscription by author on front free endpaper, and signed by author on title page. Interior pages clean. Book in Good- to Good condition. . Signed by Author. Hard Cover. Good-/No Jacket. Illus. by Photographs. Size: Approx. 5 1/2" x 8 3/4". New Jersey.
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- Bookseller
- Bee Creek Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 007509
- Title
- A HOUSE CALLED MORVEN: ITS ROLE IN AMERICAN HISTORY, 1701-1954
- Author
- Bill, Alfred Hoyt
- Illustrator
- Photographs
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good-
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Place of Publication
- Princeton, New Jersey
- Date Published
- 1954
- Keywords
- American History, Princeton, New Jersey
- Bookseller catalogs
- American History; American Presidents;
- Size
- Size: Approx. 5 1/2" x 8 3/4"
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