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Valentine's Manual of the City of New York, 1924
by Henry Brown
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine Condition/No Dust Jacket
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Warwick, New York, United States
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About This Item
Chauncey Holt, New York, 1923. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Near Fine Condition/No Dust Jacket. HENRY COLLINS BROWN (editor). Valentine's Manual of the City of New York, 1924, New York: Chauncey Holt, 1923. 12mo, No. 8 of the New Series, pp. xix, 386, blue cloth printed boards, gift inscription on free front endpaper, gravures, lithographs. Brown's version of the D.T. Valentine manuals of the previous century, with the addition of photography where Valentine confined his illustration to lithography. Condition of this book: Near fine with dust marks at bottom edge, slightly sunned spine; a tight, solid copy. Size: 12mo. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Genealogy & Local History; United States; 1920s; Antiquarian & Rare. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 54769. .
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 54769
- Title
- Valentine's Manual of the City of New York, 1924
- Author
- Henry Brown
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover (Original Cloth)
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine Condition
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Chauncey Holt
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1923
- Keywords
- BZDB17 Genealogy & Local History; United States; 1920s; Antiquarian & Rare. Henry Brown Valentine's Manual of the City of New York, 1924
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Cloth
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- Spine
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- Edges
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- New
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- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- 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...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- 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...
- Jacket
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