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Old Boston in Colonial Days; Or, St. Botolph's Town
by Crawford, Mary Caroline
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+ with no dust jacket
- Seller
-
Hartland, Michigan, United States
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About This Item
L. C. Page & Company. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1908. First Edition :. Hardcover. 12mo hardcover, illustrated covers, gilted, top edge gilt, uncut pages (ends) , tight binding, clean unfoxed and untorn pages, excellent map, covers have no apparent physical wear, tho' lower edge of board has tide marks (Boston Harbor? ) , else VG++, no DJ as issued. Nice solid copy hefts well in hand. Illustrated edition with notables, including John Smith, buildings and other historical features. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 365pp pages .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Mossback Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 28795
- Title
- Old Boston in Colonial Days; Or, St. Botolph's Town
- Author
- Crawford, Mary Caroline
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+ with no dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition :
- Publisher
- L. C. Page & Company
- Date Published
- 1908
- Keywords
- COLONIAL Boston; Colonial U. S.
- Bookseller catalogs
- History;
Terms of Sale
Mossback Books
books sent by Media mail @$4.25 first book $3 each book thereafter; average size Air mail @$8.25 within midwest-zone(west-coast zone-$10.50) first book. Heavy books quote for air mail. Books can be returned within 7 days of receipt for any reason but with prior notice given to the seller. Foreign sales need to obtain a quote for postage.
About the Seller
Mossback Books
Biblio member since 2004
Hartland, Michigan
About Mossback Books
Sales through the internet and at book shows in the midwest.
Glossary
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Uncut Pages
- 'Uncut pages', or simply 'uncut', traditionally refers to a book which has not been trimmed by rebinding. Prior to the...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- 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...
- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
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