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The Majestic Land: Peaks, Parks and Prevaricators of the Rockies and Highlands of the Northwest
by Thane, Eric
- Used
- first
- Condition
- very good: spot of discoloration on front board, slightly bumped, text clean, binding tight, text block deckled edges./good: closed tear along spine, chipped and rubbed, toning on flaps, faded.
- Seller
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Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States
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About This Item
The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1950. first edition. hardcover. very good: spot of discoloration on front board, slightly bumped, text clean, binding tight, text block deckled edges./good: closed tear along spine, chipped and rubbed, toning on flaps, faded.. Octavo 347pp. from front flap: "...He climbs into your car with you and tells you about the Majestic Land. He has a thousand stories, about the early explorers, the Indians, the miners, the highwaymen, prospectors, ranchers and mountain men of the past, about the cattle growers, ranchers, sheepherders, miners, forest rangers, dude ranchers and tourists of the present, about geysers, caves, storms, forest fires elk and bear..." #00280.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Matthew's Books LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 254
- Title
- The Majestic Land
- Author
- Thane, Eric
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - very good: spot of discoloration on front board, slightly bumped, text clean, binding tight, text block deckled edges.
- Jacket Condition
- good: closed tear along spine, chipped and rubbed, toning on flaps, faded.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- first edition
- Publisher
- The Bobbs-Merrill Company
- Date Published
- 1950
- Keywords
- travel, rockies, first edition
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About the Seller
Matthew's Books LLC
Biblio member since 2023
Chattanooga, Tennessee
About Matthew's Books LLC
small online used bookstore based in Chattanooga, TN. Little bit of everything, but lots of modern first editions.
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- 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...
- 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...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Flap(s)
- The portion of a book cover or cover jacket that folds into the book from front to back. The flap can contain biographical...
- 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....
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