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The Writings of Colonel William Byrd of Westover in Virginia, Esqr.
by Byrd, William; (Edited by John Spencer Bassett)
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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Greensboro, North Carolina, United States
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About This Item
New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1901. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Quarto. 461 pages, indexed. Hardcover in original green cloth dust jacket with a white paper label on the spine. Moderate wear to the jacket, which is housed in a plastic jacket cover. The book shows light to moderate wear and has secure inner hinges. The binding of the book appears to be quarter vellum, but this is not actually vellum. Lacks the paper label on the spine of the book itself, although the jacket has the paper label. Book is sound and clean within. Top edge gilt; fore edge untrimmed. This is number 160 of a limited edition of 500 copies. Collates complete with four illustrations, including the frontis.
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- Bookseller
- Pages Past Used and Rare Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 044793
- Title
- The Writings of Colonel William Byrd of Westover in Virginia, Esqr.
- Author
- Byrd, William; (Edited by John Spencer Bassett)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition First Printing
- Publisher
- Doubleday, Page & Co.
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1901
- Size
- 4to - over 9¾ - 12"
- Weight
- 3.90 lbs
- Keywords
- 1901; Colonel William Byrd; John Spencer Bassett; Westover; Colonial Virginia; History; Limited Edition; Numbered; Plantation; Rare; Collectible; Writings; Dividing Line; Land of Eden; North Carolina.
- Bookseller catalogs
- Americana--The South; Travel;
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About the Seller
Pages Past Used and Rare Books
Biblio member since 2017
Greensboro, North Carolina
About Pages Past Used and Rare Books
Pages Past is a small used & rare bookshop located a few blocks from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Since 1996 we have been serving the Triad community as well as customers from around the world. We have around 15-20,000 volumes in our shop. We specialize in North Carolina, Virginia, Civil War, Old Leather, Christianity, Eastern and Western Philosophies, and the simply unusual. We very likely have the oldest books in Greensboro; we keep a nice selection of antiquarian volumes and scholarly books.
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- 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Fore Edge
- The portion of a book that is opposite the spine. That part of a book which faces the wall when shelved in a traditional...
- Quarto
- The term quarto is used to describe a page or book size. A printed sheet is made with four pages of text on each side, and the...
- Vellum
- Vellum is a sheet of specialty prepared skin of lamb, calf, or goat kid used for binding a book or for printing and writing. ...
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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