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The Papers of Thomas Ruffin. (Vol III Only, Including Civil War Years).
by Ruffin, Thomas. (Edited by J. G. de Roulhac Hamilton)
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fair/No Jacket
- Seller
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Greensboro, North Carolina, United States
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About This Item
Raleigh: Edwards & Broughton Printing Company, 1920. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Octavo. 464 pages. Hardcover bound in burgundy cloth with the state seal in gilt on the front covers. Binding is rubbed, has damping and spotting. There is some light scuffing also. The corners are bumped. The edges of the text block are foxed. The endpapers are foxed and the lower edges are damped. The rear hinge has a few holes in the gutter paper. Text is toned, has occasional foxing, damping. Volume III only, covering the years 1859-1865.
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- Bookseller
- Pages Past Used and Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 048262
- Title
- The Papers of Thomas Ruffin. (Vol III Only, Including Civil War Years).
- Author
- Ruffin, Thomas. (Edited by J. G. de Roulhac Hamilton)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition First Printing
- Publisher
- Edwards & Broughton Printing Company
- Place of Publication
- Raleigh
- Date Published
- 1920
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Weight
- 2.50 lbs
- Keywords
- 1920 Thomas Ruffin; J. G. de Roulhac Hamilton; Governor; North Carolina; History; Historical; Early; Rare; Collectible; Civil War; Letters.
- Bookseller catalogs
- North Carolina; Civil War;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Pages Past Used and Rare Books
Biblio member since 2017
Greensboro, North Carolina
About Pages Past Used and Rare Books
Pages Past is a small used & rare bookshop located a few blocks from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Since 1996 we have been serving the Triad community as well as customers from around the world. We have around 15-20,000 volumes in our shop. We specialize in North Carolina, Virginia, Civil War, Old Leather, Christianity, Eastern and Western Philosophies, and the simply unusual. We very likely have the oldest books in Greensboro; we keep a nice selection of antiquarian volumes and scholarly books.
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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...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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...
- 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...
- Gutter
- The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
- 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....
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- 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...
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