Indian Captivities, or Life in the Wigwam; Being True Narratives of Captives Who Have Been Carried Away By the Indians...
by Drake, Samuel G
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair
- Seller
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East Granby, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
Auburn: Derby and Miller, 1851. Title page dated 1851, originally published 1850. Full calf leather with black spine label, frontis engraving, 367 pages plus index. Worn copy with cracks to the joints, sound text block with one section slightly loosened but not detached, pages foxed but readily legible, old dampstains to final several pages (no musty odor), name in pencil with an 1853 date on the front free endpaper, no other markings.. Hard Cover. Fair. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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- Bookseller
- Resource Books, LLC (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 046872
- Title
- Indian Captivities, or Life in the Wigwam; Being True Narratives of Captives Who Have Been Carried Away By the Indians...
- Author
- Drake, Samuel G
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Publisher
- Derby and Miller
- Place of Publication
- Auburn
- Date Published
- 1851
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Keywords
- CAPTIVITY NATIVE AMERICAN
- Bookseller catalogs
- American History and Biography;
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East Granby, Connecticut
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- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Calf
- Calf or calf hide is a common form of leather binding. Calf binding is naturally a light brown but there are ways to treat the...
- Spine Label
- The paper or leather descriptive tag attached to the spine of the book, most commonly providing the title and author of the...
- 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...
- 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....
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....