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John Motley Morehead and the Development of North Carolina 1796-1866
by Konkle, Burton Alva
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fair/No Jacket
- Seller
-
Greensboro, North Carolina, United States
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About This Item
Philadelphia: William J. Campbell, 1922. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Octavo. 437 pages, indexed. Hardcover bound in burgundy cloth with a clear removable modern plastic or mylar jacket. The binding shows moderate rubbing and wear, and there are a couple of gouges in the cloth on the front cover. The front inner hinge is cracking and nearly completely open. Front pastedown has a modern owner's mass-market bookplate with the name written down. Foxing to the prelims. The text block of the book is sound, and the text is a little toned but is generally clean. Contains several illustrations and text maps.
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- Bookseller
- Pages Past Used and Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 051730
- Title
- John Motley Morehead and the Development of North Carolina 1796-1866
- Author
- Konkle, Burton Alva
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition First Printing
- Publisher
- William J. Campbell
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia
- Date Published
- 1922
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾\" tall
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- 1922; Burton Alva Konkle; John Motley Morehead; History; North Carolina; Governor; 19th Century; Historical; Greensboro; Guilford County; Maps; The South.
- Bookseller catalogs
- North Carolina;
Terms of Sale
Pages Past Used and Rare Books
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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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- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
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