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THE LITERATURE OF THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN WEST 1803 - 1903
by Davidson, Levette Jay & Prudence Bostwick
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket
- Seller
-
Fairfield, New Jersey, United States
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About This Item
Caldwell, Idaho: Caxton Printers, Ltd.. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1939. First Edition. Hardcover. The most important writing of the Rocky Mountain region from the period of 1803 to 1903. Clean red cloth has gilt titles on front cover & spine. Text tight, clean & intact. Dust jacket has small spine head chips with a small hole by head. Many of the items are excerpts from volumes that are unavailable to the public because of their rarity. West ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 449 pages .
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- Bookseller
- Nick Bikoff, Bookseller
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 14779
- Title
- THE LITERATURE OF THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN WEST 1803 - 1903
- Author
- Davidson, Levette Jay & Prudence Bostwick
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Caxton Printers, Ltd.
- Place of Publication
- Caldwell, Idaho
- Date Published
- 1939
- Keywords
- West
- Bookseller catalogs
- Western Americana;
Terms of Sale
Nick Bikoff, Bookseller
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About the Seller
Nick Bikoff, Bookseller
Biblio member since 2005
Fairfield, New Jersey
About Nick Bikoff, Bookseller
Nick Bikoff and his wife Fran have been buying and selling quality books and ephemera since 1989 when they attended the "Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar" at the University of Denver. They offer a broad based selection of used, rare, and out-of-print stock ranging from the sixteenth to the twentieth century.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
- 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
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