THE NEW YORK OBSERVER YEAR BOOK 1872. (Cover title).
by The New York Observer
- Used
- fair
- Paperback
- Condition
- Fair
- Seller
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Cadyville, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: Sidney E. Morse, Jr. & Company, (1871)., (1871).. Fair. - Octavo, softcover bound in pictorial wrappers with an illustration of the New York Observer building on the front cover & of the Equitable Life Assurance Society on the rear cover. The wraps are stained & chipped with a tear to the top inner corner of the rear wrap. The spine is torn with pieces out. 200 pages. Illustrated in black & white with tables & pictorial ads. There is some light rippling to the pages with some light vertical creasing. Good. <p>Among the contents are statistics and directories prepared by the various departments of the newspaper, including the Astronomical, Civil and Commercial, Ecclesiastical, Educational, Agricultural and Insurance Departments. Among the many advertisements are pictorial ads for Remington guns, Gold Medal threshing machines, John Stevens street cars and omnibuses, Singer sewing machines and several life insurance companies.
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- Bookseller
- Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd. (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 36118
- Title
- THE NEW YORK OBSERVER YEAR BOOK 1872. (Cover title).
- Author
- The New York Observer
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- New York: Sidney E. Morse, Jr. & Company, (1871).
- Date Published
- (1871).
- Keywords
- NEW YORK STATE; NEW YORK CITY; JOURNALISM; NEWSPAPERS; YEAR BOOKS; THE NEW YORK OBSERVER YEAR BOOK 1872; ADS; PICTORIAL ADS; DIRECTORIES; STATISTICS; CHRONOLOGICAL RECORD OF EVENTS; ASTRONOMY; RELIGION; AGRICULTURE; EDUCATION; INSURANCE; NINETEENTH CENTU
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Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd.
Payment with order from individuals. Items are offered subject to prior sale. All purchases are subject to your approval, returnable within 10 days. New York State residents please add sales tax to your purchases. All items are guaranteed authentic and as described.
About the Seller
Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd.
Biblio member since 2003
Cadyville, New York
About Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd.
Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd. (incorporated 1989) is a general antiquarian book store which buys and sells collections and individual items of significance. Booksellers Ric Zank and Daniel Meunier each bring to the business over 18 years of experience in seeking out and offering for sale unusual, uncommon and rare books, autographs, and ephemera in all fields. Our office is open 7 days a week from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and frequently later. An answering machine will take your message after hours and when we are out of the office.
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- 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....
- Wrappers
- The paper covering on the outside of a paperback. Also see the entry for pictorial wraps, color illustrated coverings for...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...