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A Jersey Boy in the Revolution
by Tomlinson, Everett T
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+/No Jacket
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About This Item
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1899. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good+/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Schoonover, Frank E.. Bound pale beige cloth with titles and decorations stamped in red and blue. First edition, with corresponding 1899 dates to the title and copyright pages. The author's box lists only two titles, with this one second. 428 pages. Eight illustrations by Frank Schoonover, all present. Note: This was young Schoonover's first book illustrating assignment (he was just 22); he was still at Howard Pyle's school when he received this commision. The tissue guard at the frontispiece is still present. The cloth shows only a touch of edgewear, with just a hint of foxing to the spine and darkish rub mark to the rear cover. Hinges solid; binding square. A clean, tight, unmarked copy. Tomlinson's second book for Houghton; Schoonover's first commission for illustrations.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 125690
- Title
- A Jersey Boy in the Revolution
- Author
- Tomlinson, Everett T
- Illustrator
- Schoonover, Frank E.
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Houghton, Mifflin and Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1899
- Size
- 12mo - over 6�" - 7�" tall
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- American Revolution Revolutionary War New Jersey Battles Schoonover
- Bookseller catalogs
- fiction; juvenile; Antiquarian and Collectible Books;
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- Cloth
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- Spine
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- First Edition
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- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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