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Wall Street in History
by Martha Lamb
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good Condition/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
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Warwick, New York, United States
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About This Item
Funk & Wagnalls, New York, 1883. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. MARTHA J. LAMB. Wall Street in History, New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1883. Tall, thin octavo, first edition, pp. 95, red cloth boards with gilt lettering and finance metaphors stamped into front, blind-stamped decorative borders to front and back, all edges gilt, illustrated, ownership signature on a front blank. Covers the days when there were actual boiler rooms, not the figurative scam operations, and big shade trees on Wall Street. Condition of this book: Covers have small stains, chips; spine discolored. Minor dampstain at top edge touches most leaves, inoffensive with text unaffected. Overall good and sound. Size: Octavo (standard book size). 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: Business, Finance & Marketing; United States; 19th century; Antiquarian & Rare. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 54257. .
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 54257
- Title
- Wall Street in History
- Author
- Martha Lamb
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover (Original Cloth)
- Book Condition
- Used - Good Condition
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Funk & Wagnalls
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1883
- Keywords
- BZDB17 Business, Finance & Marketing; United States; 19th century; Antiquarian & Rare. Martha Lamb Wall Street in History
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Biblio member since 2007
Warwick, New York
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- 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...
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- 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....
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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