Illustrated Catalogue and Price List of Hardware, Iron, Steel, Coal, Pipe, Pipe Fittings, Machinists' and Builders' Supplies, Bronze Goods, Etc.
by Huntington-Hopkins Company
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- G+
- Seller
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Concord, California, United States
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About This Item
San Francisco: Hicks-Judd Company, Printers and Bookbinders. G+. N.D.. Hardcover. Brown cloth with gilt titles on front cover and spine. Spine head is torn, the covers extensively rubbed and worn with chipping and tears along edges. Internally Very Good; binding is fairly tight and the pages are clean, though the text block edges are much-rubbed and red ink is faded.; Good+. Copiously illustrated, with alphabetically tabbed index at front. Catalog of the company founded by Collis P. Huntington and Mark Hopkins in 1855. Hopkins and Huntington became two of the "Big Four" builders of the Central Pacific Railroad. No date on title page, but circa 1855.; B&W Illustrations; 930 p. .
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- Bookseller
- Berkshire Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2856
- Title
- Illustrated Catalogue and Price List of Hardware, Iron, Steel, Coal, Pipe, Pipe Fittings, Machinists' and Builders' Supplies, Bronze Goods, Etc.
- Author
- Huntington-Hopkins Company
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - G+
- Publisher
- Hicks-Judd Company, Printers and Bookbinders
- Place of Publication
- San Francisco
- Date Published
- N.D.
- Bookseller catalogs
- Business;
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Berkshire Books
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- 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....
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- G+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good. Good is defined as "describes the average used and worn book...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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