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Trail-Makers of the Middle Border
by Garland, Hamlin
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- Seller
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Skyway, Washington, United States
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About This Item
New York: Macmillan Company, 1926. Tight, square copy in full cloth binding with color illustration on front. Inscribed on half title page: "Volume I / An imaginative Preface. / by / Hamlin Garland" Illustrated endpapers. 426pp. Jacket is good only, with chipping at spine ends, both flaps taped on, original 2.50 price intact. Now in a new mylar cover.. Signed. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Illus. by Garland, Constance. 8vo - 8" - 9" Tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Turn-The-Page Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 069243
- Title
- Trail-Makers of the Middle Border
- Author
- Garland, Hamlin
- Illustrator
- Garland, Constance
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Macmillan Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1926
- Size
- 8vo - 8" - 9" Tall
- Keywords
- Fiction Novel Pioneer Great Lakes Wisconsin Union Army Vicksburg Civil War
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Turn-The-Page Books
Biblio member since 2004
Skyway, Washington
About Turn-The-Page Books
Customer service is our top priority! Susan is an ALA member librarian and lifelong book collector and enthusiast. Peter has happily spent over 30 years in the used book business. Books are well packaged to prevent damage in transit.
Glossary
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- 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...
- 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....
- Inscribed
- When a book is described as being inscribed, it indicates that a short note written by the author or a previous owner has been...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Flap(s)
- The portion of a book cover or cover jacket that folds into the book from front to back. The flap can contain biographical...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Half Title
- The blank front page which appears just prior to the title page, and typically contains only the title of the book, although, at...
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