Lives of the Presidents of the United States (The Favorite Library)
by CLARK, Mary Fairman
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Littleton, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
Boston: DeWolfe, Fiske & Co.. Fair with no dust jacket. 1901. Hardcover. A charming, illustrated work, providing brief biographies of the first 26 U. S. Presidents (Washington through Theodore Roosevelt). With about 6 color plates and many black & white engraved illustrations. --- In olive cloth-covered boards with color illustrations on front and titling in black on spine. --- The binding is quite loose, with prior owner's signature to front paste-down, markings to front endpapers and leaves have yellowed. Overall, volume is intact and readable. ; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 272 pages .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bluebird Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 79060
- Title
- Lives of the Presidents of the United States (The Favorite Library)
- Author
- CLARK, Mary Fairman
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair with no dust jacket
- Publisher
- DeWolfe, Fiske & Co.
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1901
- Bookseller catalogs
- >>Biography, Autobiography, Memoir; >>US Presidents;
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About the Seller
Bluebird Books
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Littleton, Colorado
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- 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....
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....