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Chronicles of the City of Gotham, by a Retired Common Councilman, Containing: The Azure Hose, The Politician, The Dumb Girl
by Paulding, James Kirke (a Retired Common Councilman)
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good+
- Seller
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Asheville, North Carolina, United States
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About This Item
New York: G. & C. & H. Carvill, 1830. First edition. Hardcover. Good+. 8vo (8"x5"). 270pp. 1/4 green cloth & paper covered boards, spine label & deckled edges. Large chip missing to head spine extreme, spine label chipped, cloth split 3" over head joint of lower board (corresponding 3" split to lower hinge). Stained & dampstained paper covers. Corners rubbed. Heavily foxed interior. Prevvious owner's name penned to title page. Errata slip. Binding sound.
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- Bookseller
- Downtown Books & News
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3771
- Title
- Chronicles of the City of Gotham, by a Retired Common Councilman, Containing: The Azure Hose, The Politician, The Dumb Girl
- Author
- Paulding, James Kirke (a Retired Common Councilman)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- G. & C. & H. Carvill
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1830
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- G
- Good describes the average used and worn book that has all pages or leaves present. Any defects must be noted. (as defined by AB...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- Errata
- Errata: aka Errata Slip A piece of paper either laid in to the book correcting errors found in the printed text after being...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Spine Label
- The paper or leather descriptive tag attached to the spine of the book, most commonly providing the title and author of the...
- 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...
- 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...
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