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Keweenaw, A Story From the North Woods
by William C. Gray
- Used
- near fine
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/No Jacket
- Seller
-
Gleneden Beach, Oregon, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Berekley, California: Acorn Press, 1893. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Limited Edition number 278 of 300 copies, A Story from the North Woods, limp brown light brown suede, 20 pages, 7 inches in height by 5.25 inches in width, Book is near Fine, illustrated with an original tipped in photograph frontispiece portrait of author, gilt and orange sailing vignette on first page of text, beautiful handmade book, very clean with no previous owner bookplate or writing. Binding very solid with uncut foredge, a beautiful example of craftsman printing from Acorn Press. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Pacific Coast Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001755
- Title
- Keweenaw, A Story From the North Woods
- Author
- William C. Gray
- Format/Binding
- Soft cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Acorn Press
- Place of Publication
- Berekley, California
- Date Published
- 1893
- Keywords
- Limited Edition, William C. Gray
Terms of Sale
Pacific Coast Books
10 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 10 days after delivery if an item arrives mis-described or damaged.
About the Seller
Pacific Coast Books
Biblio member since 2015
Gleneden Beach, Oregon
About Pacific Coast Books
Pacific Coast Books specializes in quality of books of interest from our store on the Central Oregon Coast. We are proud members of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America and have been buying and selling books for almost 20 years. Visit our website at www.Pacifc CoastBooks.net. Please feel free to call or email with any titles you would like to add to your collection. Only a small fraction of our inventory is online. We buy book collections.
Glossary
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- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- 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...
- Tipped In
- Tipped In is used to describe something which has been glued into a book. Tipped-in items can include photos, book plates,...
- 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...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Vignette
- A decorative design or illustration placed at the beginning or end of a ...
- 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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