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The Story of a Street: A Narrative History of Wall Street from 1644 to 1908
by Hill, Frederick Trevor
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fair/No Jacket
- Seller
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Andover, Massachusetts, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1908. First printing. Green cloth with gilt decoration and lettering. Top edge gilt. 171 pp. including index, plus illustrations. Considerable wear to the extremities. The joints are scuffed and have 1" tears at the spine head. The front hinge is cracked. The endpapers are smudged. In an otherwise sound binding.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fair/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Banjo Booksellers
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 011267
- Title
- The Story of a Street: A Narrative History of Wall Street from 1644 to 1908
- Author
- Hill, Frederick Trevor
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Harper & Brothers
- Place of Publication
- New York and London
- Date Published
- 1908
- Keywords
- History Collectible
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Banjo Booksellers
Biblio member since 2004
Andover, Massachusetts
About Banjo Booksellers
On-line and mail-order only. We have a wide variety of books, both fiction and non-fiction, with an emphasis on modern first editions and collectible childrens books.
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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....
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
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