The Johnstown Flood
by David G. McCullough
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fine
- Seller
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Longmont, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
The Easton Press, 1993. The Leather-Bound Library of American History. First Thus; Collector's Edition. Hardcover. Issued without dust jacket. Fine, "Like New" condition. Appears unopened / unread. Binding and text block are tight, bright, and clean with no ownership markings or bookplates. Bound in full (genuine) blue leather with hubbed spine. Embossed in 22kt gold on the spine and front and back covers. Heavy duty binding boards. Printed on acid-neutral, archival paper. All edges gilt. Smyth sewn with concealed muslin joints and permanent satin ribbon marker. Notes from History sheet laid in. Photo is of the copy we have at Barbed Wire Books. A beautiful copy.
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- Bookseller
- Barbed Wire Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- M0362
- Title
- The Johnstown Flood
- Author
- David G. McCullough
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Easton Press
- Place of Publication
- Norwalk, Connecticut
- Date Published
- 1993
- Pages
- 302
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Disasters, American History, Floods
- Bookseller catalogs
- History; Easton Press;
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- Gilt
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- Tight
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Unopened
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- Fine
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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....
- 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....
- 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...
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- Nature Natural Disasters
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