A Tour Around New York and My Summer Acre. Being the Recreations of Mr, Felix Oldboy
by Mines, John Flavel
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Cadyville, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1893.. 1893.. Good. - Octavo, pictorial blue cloth titled in gilt with an illustration in black on the front cover. The binding is rubbed at the extremities with a small white stain to each cover. The spine is faded. xviii & 518 plus 2- page publisher's catalog. Black-and-white plates, including a frontispiece with tissue guard and numerous full-page & textual illustrations in black & white. There is a previous owner's name & date in pencil on the front endpaper. There are a very few pencil markings in the text with occasional soiling. The page edges are slightly darkened. Good. <p>Sketches written by Colonel John Flavel Mines for newspaper publication.
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- Bookseller
- Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd. (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 31409
- Title
- A Tour Around New York and My Summer Acre. Being the Recreations of Mr, Felix Oldboy
- Author
- Mines, John Flavel
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1893.
- Date Published
- 1893.
- Keywords
- NEW YORK STATE; NEW YORK CITY; A Tour Around New York and My Summer Acre. Being the Recreations of Mr, Felix Oldboy; JOHN FLAVEL MINES; PLATES; ILLUSTRATIONS; NINETEENTH CENTURY; 19TH CENTURY.
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Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd.
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About the Seller
Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd.
Biblio member since 2003
Cadyville, New York
About Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd.
Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd. (incorporated 1989) is a general antiquarian book store which buys and sells collections and individual items of significance. Booksellers Ric Zank and Daniel Meunier each bring to the business over 18 years of experience in seeking out and offering for sale unusual, uncommon and rare books, autographs, and ephemera in all fields. Our office is open 7 days a week from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and frequently later. An answering machine will take your message after hours and when we are out of the office.
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