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Lake Champlain and Lake George
by Van de Water, Frederic
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Deep River, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Co., 1946. First Limited Edition. Near fine in decorated green cloth covered boards with gilt text stamping on the spine and on the front board with map end sheets. An octavo of 8 3/8 by 5 3/4 inches. In a very good+ unclipped dust jacket with shallow chipping across both ends of the spine area and several small chips to the edges of both boards. A special limited edition signed by the author on the decorated, tipped-in, second free end page. The seventh volume in The American Lakes Series edited by Milo M.Quaife. 381 pages containing an index and bibliographical notes. (Fitzgerald, AL1a)
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- Bookseller
- Town's End Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- TB32983
- Title
- Lake Champlain and Lake George
- Author
- Van de Water, Frederic
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- First Limited Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Bobbs-Merrill Co.
- Place of Publication
- Indianapolis
- Date Published
- 1946
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
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Deep River, Connecticut
About Town's End Books
We purchase and sell only collectible first editions in a number of fields all focused on Americana. We are primarily mail order sellers; however, we are open by appointment and welcome visits from customers.
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- Cloth
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- Gilt
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- Good+
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- Octavo
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- Spine
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- Edges
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- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Jacket
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- Fine
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