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Whitney Father, Whitney Heiress: Two Generations of One of America's Richest Families
by Swanberg, W. A
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good in Very Good DJ
- ISBN 10
- 0684164485
- ISBN 13
- 9780684164489
- Seller
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Helena, Montana, United States
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About This Item
Charles Scribner's Sons, 1980. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good DJ. First printing, very good hardcover is tight and clean while showing light shelf wear including bit of bumping to corners, touch of rubbing and soil to covers, corner wrinkling to group of pages within, light soil at page edges and some other minor trace wear, in very good dust jacket (price at flap) that shows wrinkles extending length of both inner flaps, couple pieces of tape reinforcememt at spine head area of jacket reverse, and edge wear that includes some short closed tears. 518 pages with black & whites. Solid copy of this look at super wealth and upper class elite centered around "..William Collins Whitney and his daughter Dorothy..
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- Bookseller
- Barker Books & Vintage
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 23815
- Title
- Whitney Father, Whitney Heiress: Two Generations of One of America's Richest Families
- Author
- Swanberg, W. A
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Very Good DJ
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- ISBN 10
- 0684164485
- ISBN 13
- 9780684164489
- Publisher
- Charles Scribner's Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1980
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Barker Books & Vintage
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- Jacket
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- Spine
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- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- 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.
- 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...
- 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...
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