Baraboo Bear Tales
by Cole, Harry Ellsworth
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Ontario, Wisconsin, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Baraboo, Wisconsin: The Baraboo News Pub. Co, 1915. First Edition. HB. Green cloth, white lettering on front cover, 12mo, vii, 110 pp. Series of stories about bears, and the people who hunted them, in the Sauk County area of Wisconsin during the early days of settlement in the nineteenth century. Cole (1861-1928) was founder and editor of the Baraboo Daily News and president of the Sauk County Historical Society. He was instrumental in the preservation of the stories of early pioneers of the area, which includes Wisconsin Dells, and also preserved views of many of the early buildings through his photographs. Book has a Christmas sticker and inscription, dated Dec. 25, 1915, on the ffep. No marks in book, binding tight. The first few pages show very light moisture stains to outside margins. Covers show some white stains, especially rear cover. Book condition VG-. Uncommon.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Parker's Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- KQ7716
- Title
- Baraboo Bear Tales
- Author
- Cole, Harry Ellsworth
- Format/Binding
- HB
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- The Baraboo News Pub. Co
- Place of Publication
- Baraboo, Wisconsin
- Date Published
- 1915
- Bookseller catalogs
- Wisconsin;
Terms of Sale
Parker's Rare Books
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About the Seller
Parker's Rare Books
Biblio member since 2006
Ontario, Wisconsin
About Parker's Rare Books
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- 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...
- PUB
- Common abbreviation for 'published'
- 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...