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The American West: A Treasury of Stories, Legends, Narratives, Songs & Ballads of Western America - 1st Edition / 1st Printing
by Targ, William (ed.)
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good+ in Fair dust jacket
- Seller
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Summerville, South Carolina, United States
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About This Item
Cleveland, OH, and New York: The World Publishing Company. Good+ in Fair dust jacket. [1946]. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. First edition / first printing in Good+ condition with lightly soiled boards, bumped corners, rubbed dusty edges, penned annotations on several pages, and slightly loose spine in Fair dust jacket with considerable chipping to edges and panel creases, large tear to lower back panel edge and smaller tear to front lower edge; A remarkable anthology of stories, tales, and ballads from the Old West ; B & W Illustrations; 8vo ; 595 pages .
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- Bookseller
- Books Tell You Why, Inc.
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 60057
- Title
- The American West: A Treasury of Stories, Legends, Narratives, Songs & Ballads of Western America - 1st Edition / 1st Printing
- Author
- Targ, William (ed.)
- Illustrator
- Illustrated by Baldwin Hawkes
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+ in Fair dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition; First Printing
- Publisher
- The World Publishing Company
- Place of Publication
- Cleveland, OH, and New York
- Date Published
- [1946]
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction / Historical Fiction; By Year Of Issue / 1940s;
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- Jacket
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- Edges
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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....
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- 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"...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- 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...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
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