The Centennial History of the United States
by McCabe, James D
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair/No Jacket
- Seller
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Rochester, New York, United States
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About This Item
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.A: The National Publishing Company, 1874. Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. 6 1/2" x 9 3/4. FAIR / NO DUST JACKET. [3], 925 pp. + ads. Text clean and unmarked. Pages slightly toned. Illustrated with 442 engravings and portraits. Brown pebbled cloth boards decorated and lettered in black and gilt at front, back and spine. Boards scuffed, edges rubbed, corners worn to boards, spine top and tail very frayed, spine cloth torn 2" at lower front. Hinges mobile, but holding. Textblock firm.
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Details
- Bookseller
- RPL Library Store
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 031185
- Title
- The Centennial History of the United States
- Author
- McCabe, James D
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- The National Publishing Company
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.A
- Date Published
- 1874
- Size
- 6 1/2" x 9 3/4
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- History United States of America
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- 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....
- 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...
- 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...
- Pebbled
- Pebbled cloth or leather describes the covering of a hardcover book with a decorative texture of repeated small raised bumps,...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
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