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New Roads and Road Laws in the United States
by Roy Stone
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket (as issued)
- Seller
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Springfield, Ohio, United States
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About This Item
D. Van Nostrand Company, New York, 1894. Edition Unstated. Hardcover (Half Leather). Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket (as issued). Book VG HB in No DJ. Rebound in leather half-bound cover with marbled boards with gilt lines at edges and gilt title, author and date on five ribbed spine. Protected by clear, heavy Mylar cover. vii, 166 p.: ill., plates; 19 cm. 9 full page photos and 5 cross-sections illustrating road-building process and equipment. Appendix: "Abstracts of New Road Laws in Sixteen States." The re-binding makes this an unusually attractive copy of a scare, highly collectible early book on the beginnings of modern roads, though the front cover is detached. Presumed first edition. Size: Duodecimo (12 mo; up to 7 3/4" / 17.5-20 cm tall). Item Type: Book. Text block is tight, bright and unmarked. The front board is detached from the book. Red bookmark is bound in. The endpapers are heavy marbled paper, matching the cover. Top edge gilt - bright, rich condition. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Technology & Engineering; Civil / Highway & Traffic; United States; 19th century; Antiquarian & Rare. Main Picture: Stone, New Roads and Road Laws (1894) - Front cover and Spine with ribbon bookmark bound in. Picture 2: Stone, New Roads and Road Laws (1894) - Title Page (sorry for the fuzziness; the book is too tightly bound to lay down flat on the scanner bed). Picture 3: Stone, New Roads and Road Laws (1894) - Example of the 9 full page photos. Picture 4: Stone, New Roads and Road Laws (1894) - Example of one of the 5 full-page cross-sections (this is only half of a full-page; the top half was too fuzzy to show). Picture 5: Stone, New Roads and Road Laws (1894) - List of Illustrations (sorry for the fuzziness; the book is too tightly bound to lay down flat on the scanner bed). Picture 6: Stone, New Roads and Road Laws (1894) - Detail of the bottom joint showing the dry leather and resulting wear. Picture 7: Stone, New Roads and Road Laws (1894) - Detail of the bottom right corner showing the slight shelf wear at the corner. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 983. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Quaint Book Shop, IOBA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 983
- Title
- New Roads and Road Laws in the United States
- Author
- Roy Stone
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover (Half Leather)
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Condition
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket (as issued)
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Edition Unstated
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- D. Van Nostrand Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1894
- Keywords
- BZDB22 road construction automobiles Technology & Engineering; Civil / Highway & Traffic; United States; 19th century; Antiquarian & Rare. Unbranded Roy Stone New Roads and Road Laws in the United States
- Bookseller catalogs
- TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING;
Terms of Sale
Quaint Book Shop, IOBA
Ohio residents must pay the required state sales tax for intra-state sales. Thirty (30) day return guarantee, with full refund including shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Quaint Book Shop, IOBA
Biblio member since 2007
Springfield, Ohio
About Quaint Book Shop, IOBA
Quaint Book Shop is an online bookselling service that features regional and local history, classic children's and religious books and specializes in Kenneth Roberts books.
Glossary
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- 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...
- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Marbled boards
- ...
- 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....
- 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...
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- 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...
- Rebound
- A book in which the pages have been bound into a covering replacing the original covering issued by the publisher.
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Top Edge Gilt
- Top edge gilt refers to the practice of applying gold or a gold-like finish to the top of the text block (the edges the pages...
- Marbled Paper
- Decorative colored paper that imitates marble with a veined, mottled, or swirling pattern. Commonly used as the end papers or...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
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