The Struggles (Social, Financial and Political) of Petroleum V. Nasby
by Locke, David Ross
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good+ with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Lawrence, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
Toledo, OH: Locke Publishing Co.. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1880. Hardcover. Brown cloth hardback. Contains an Introduction by Charles Sumner and 23 black and white illustrations by Thomas Nast. Text block is tight but binding is fragile but holding. End papers are dark brown with breaks at both front and back gutters. Blindstamping to front cover and spine with gilt to spine faded and hard to read. One and a half inch tears at spine top and frayed half inch at bottom. Wear to edges with rounded corners. Overall age-tanning. No marks. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 627 pages .
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- Bookseller
- The Book Lady (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 970
- Title
- The Struggles (Social, Financial and Political) of Petroleum V. Nasby
- Author
- Locke, David Ross
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+ with no dust jacket
- Publisher
- Locke Publishing Co.
- Place of Publication
- Toledo, OH
- Date Published
- 1880
- Keywords
- Petroleum V. Nasby, Autobiography
- Bookseller catalogs
- Autobiography;
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- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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....
- 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...
- 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....
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- 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...