Absaraka, Home of the Crows: Being the Experience of an Officer's Wife on The Plains
by Carrington, Margaret I
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
-
Greensboro, North Carolina, United States
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About This Item
Chicago : The Lakeside Press / R. R. Donnelley & Sons, Co., 1950. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. 12mo. 354 pages, indexed. Hardcover bound in dark burgundy cloth with gold embossing. There is light wear to the binding. The outer edge of the text block is heavily foxed. Upper edge of text block is gilt. Includes a fold out map of the mid-western United States, date not specified. The pages are slightly warped along the bottom edge, possibly due to damping. The text is otherwise clean and sound.
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- Bookseller
- Pages Past Used and Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 050245
- Title
- Absaraka, Home of the Crows: Being the Experience of an Officer's Wife on The Plains
- Author
- Carrington, Margaret I
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition First Printing
- Publisher
- The Lakeside Press / R. R. Donnelley & Sons, Co.
- Place of Publication
- Chicago
- Date Published
- 1950
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾
- Weight
- 1.10 lbs
- Keywords
- 1950; Margaret I. Carrington; Absaraka; Crow Indians; Plains Indians; Native American; Native American History; American Midwest; Westward Expansion; Americana; Folding Map.
- Bookseller catalogs
- Americana; Native American Interests;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Pages Past Used and Rare Books
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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.
Glossary
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- 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
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
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