Inventing Niagara: Beauty, Power, and Lies
by Strand, Ginger
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 1416546561
- ISBN 13
- 9781416546566
- Seller
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Toms River, New Jersey, United States
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About This Item
Simon & Schuster, 2008. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Signed by Author(s). Stated First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition May 2008. In addition there is a complete number line including number one. Hard cover in very good condition with cream boards and spine cloth and gold gilt spine lettering. Signed by the author on the Title Page (signature not authenticated.) Otherwise text block clean & tight; no writings, no markings noted. Contains a section of glossy black & white and colored photographs and illustrations. Dust jacket very good with light shelf and edge wear, and very unusual, when opened up completely dust jacket measures 23 1/2"" wide x 18 5/8"" tall. See photo of entire jacket. Folds to fit the book. What can't be completely seen when folded are photos that look very much like postcards and depict scenes around the falls. Not price clipped. * Noted on the copyright page: 'Material in this book has appeared previously in 'The Believer,' 'Orion,' and the anthology 'The Future of Nature.' From the book, 'Combining history, reportage and personal narrative, .....traces Niagara's journey from sublime icon to engineering marvel to camp spectacle. . . .uncovers the hidden history of America's waterfall....'
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- Bookseller
- Elk Creek Heritage Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- M001205
- Title
- Inventing Niagara: Beauty, Power, and Lies
- Author
- Strand, Ginger
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 1416546561
- ISBN 13
- 9781416546566
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2008
- Keywords
- Niagara Falls - New York State and Ontario - Social life and customs, Niagara Falls - New York State and Ontario - History, Niagara Falls - New York State and Ontario - Description and travel
- Bookseller catalogs
- History of New York; Geography & Maps;
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About the Seller
Elk Creek Heritage Books
Biblio member since 2015
Toms River, New Jersey
About Elk Creek Heritage Books
Elk Creek Heritage Books opened for business in 2002 with both online selling and an open shop. We continue now as an online-only bookshop and maintain a growing inventory with new additions regularly uploaded. Our largest subject areas include History, Religion, Biography, and Fiction, however, we also carry books on many other subjects, in addition to our collection of rare and antiquarian books. Our goal is to provide you, our customer, with a completely satisfactory experience.
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- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- Gilt
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- 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....
- Title Page
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Number Line
- A series of numbers appearing on the copyright page of a book, where the lowest number generally indicates the printing of that...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....