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Ante-Bellum North Carolina A Social History
by Johnson, Guion Griffis
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Greensboro, North Carolina, United States
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About This Item
Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1937. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Octavo. 935 pages, indexed. Hardcover bound in green cloth. The binding is rubbed, and the gilt on the spine is fading. Endpapers foxed and have notations. Historical Museum ink stamp on the front flyleaf, but there are no other library markings. Inscribed on the front pastedown and the title page by Mary W. Hodges of Henderson, North Carolina (dated 1938). The text itself is a little toned and has some notations and underlining.
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- Bookseller
- Pages Past Used and Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 050769
- Title
- Ante-Bellum North Carolina A Social History
- Author
- Johnson, Guion Griffis
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- The University of North Carolina Press
- Place of Publication
- Chapel Hill
- Date Published
- 1937
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- 1937; Guion Griffis Johnson; North Carolina history; Colonial; Ante-bellum; Antebellum; Civil War; 18th century; 19th century; social; Rare. Collectible.
- Bookseller catalogs
- Americana--The South; North Carolina; African-American;
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.
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Inscribed
- When a book is described as being inscribed, it indicates that a short note written by the author or a previous owner has been...
- 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...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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....
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- 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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