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Around the Capital with Uncle Hank, Recorded Together with Many Pictures
by FLEMING, Thomas
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Littleton, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
New York: The Nutshell Publishing Co. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1902. Hardcover. Formerly property of a library but showing few signs thereof. In maroon quarter leather and cloth covers; gilt titling & decorations. Heavily deckled edges, top edge gilt. Loaded with drawings and cartoons (apparantly all by Mr. Fleming), many poking fun at Washington, DC and its turn of the 20th century leaders. From chapter II: "Henry Slocum ['Hank'] was as fine a specimen of Yankee manhood as it was possible to find." --- A firm, clean copy but with some rubbing at edges of covers. With rubberstamping on front pastedown and inked presentation remarks on front free endpaper. Library coding in white on spine. Lacks a dust jacket.; Ex-Library; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 346 pages .
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- Seller
- Bluebird Books
(US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 75748
- Title
- Around the Capital with Uncle Hank, Recorded Together with Many Pictures
- Author
- FLEMING, Thomas
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good with no dust jacket
- Publisher
- The Nutshell Publishing Co
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1902
- Bookseller catalogs
- >>American History & Politics;
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About the Seller
Bluebird Books
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Littleton, Colorado
About Bluebird Books
Bluebird Books is the bookselling business of Eric Mayer, operating from my base in Littleton, Colorado. I specialize in classic fiction and literature, books on birds and natural history, railroadiana, biography, history and many other genres. Bluebird Books features publications by the Modern Library and Everyman's Library. I offer free shipping on books shipped within the US via USPS Media Mail. INTERNATIONAL ORDERS: I recommend that you use Biblio.com for your international orders because they have formed a partnership with Asendia to allow for much more affordable shipping on parcels weighing under 5 lb. (about 2.26 kg).
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- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Top Edge Gilt
- Top edge gilt refers to the practice of applying gold or a gold-like finish to the top of the text block (the edges the pages...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....
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