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THE OVERLAND MAIL 1849-1869, PROMOTER OF SETTLEMENT, PRECURSOR OF RAILRAODS
by HAFEN, LEROY R
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Minor Edge and Corner Wear/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
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Prairie Village, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
Cleveland: The Arthur H. Clark Company, 1926. Previous owner's western motif book-plate front pastedown. Top edge gilt. Seven full-page plates with tissue-guards and a folding map, all in fine condition. 361pp. Chapters on establishment and early development of postal service, the Ocean Mail, Butterfield Overland Mail, the Pony Express, Indian peril, days of the stage-coach, and more. See Howes H-11 and Rittenhouse 267. . First Edition. Green Cloth. Minor Edge and Corner Wear/No Dust Jacket. Large Octavo.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Glenn Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 014267
- Title
- THE OVERLAND MAIL 1849-1869, PROMOTER OF SETTLEMENT, PRECURSOR OF RAILRAODS
- Author
- HAFEN, LEROY R
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Minor Edge and Corner Wear
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- The Arthur H. Clark Company
- Place of Publication
- Cleveland
- Date Published
- 1926
- Size
- Large Octavo
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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About the Seller
Glenn Books
Biblio member since 2005
Prairie Village, Kansas
About Glenn Books
We are an antiquarian bookshop established in 1933. We are members of ABAA and ILAB.
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...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- 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...
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