New York: Funk & Wagnals, c1956. 7th Printing. Fine in decorated light blue cloth covered boards with black text on the spine and front board. A small quarto measuring 9 3/4" by 7 1/4". In a very good+ price clipped dust jacket with a 1/3" deep chip across the lower edge of the spine area and with light wear and rubbing to the upper edge of the same. This is Eric Sloane's tribute to America's "attic of vanishing ways and obslete occupations." The very quintessence of Sloane with wonderfully detailed sketches of early American ways. 123 pages of text with line drawings throughout.

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Bookseller: Town's End Books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: TB24283
Title: American Yesterday
Author: Sloane, Eric
Book Condition: Used
Edition: 7th Printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Funk & Wagnals
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: c1956

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Good+: A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
Price Clipped: When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
Fine: A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
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...
Rubbing: Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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....