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Through the Yellowstone Park on Horseback
by Wingate, George W
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fair
- Seller
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Greensboro, North Carolina, United States
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About This Item
New York: O. Judd Co., David W. Judd, Pres't, 1886. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Fair. 12mo. 250, (6) pages. Contains folding map at the rear. Hardcover bound in original blue cloth with titles in gilt. The binding shows heavy wear. The front cover is spotted, and there is damping on the top edge and top of the spine. Top edge of the boards are abraded, and the top edge of the text block is heavily stained. Spine dulled and corners bumped. A sound copy with secure inner hinges. Two early owners' signatures on the front flyleaf appear to read "E. F. Gooding / To C. C. Elliott / Nov. 1918." There is brown staining along the top edge of the text block throughout. Text is toned. There is a folding map of Yellowstone in the pocket at the rear. The map has a 6 inch tear along a crease near the top left of the map.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Pages Past Used and Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 046084
- Title
- Through the Yellowstone Park on Horseback
- Author
- Wingate, George W
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition First Printing
- Publisher
- O. Judd Co., David W. Judd, Pres't
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1886
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- 1886; George W. Wingate; Yellowstone Park; Horseback; Rare; Travel; Exploration; Map; 19th Century; Cartography; Collectible; 19th Century.
- Bookseller catalogs
- Americana; Travel;
Terms of Sale
Pages Past Used and Rare Books
14 day return guarantee, with full refund if an item arrives mis-described or damaged. Buyer pays return shipping.
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.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- 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....
- 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...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- 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....
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