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The Fair God, or, the Last of the 'Tzins. A Tale of the Conquest of Mexico. (Warne's 'Crown' Library)
by Wallace, Lew
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Greensboro, North Carolina, United States
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About This Item
London and New York: Frederick Warne and Co., 1887. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. 12mo. xvi, 411 pages. hardcover bound in brown cloth. Most of the binding shows light to moderate wear, but the cloth on the spine has a horizontal strip torn away near the foot. The front pastedown has a bookplate showing two trees in a decorative border and the words, "Joseph O. Morris / His Book". Early owner's inscription on the front flyleaf has a mark through it. The text is toned but is generally clean. The last few pages are wrinkled at the top edge. Inner hinges secure.
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- Bookseller
- Pages Past Used and Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 049906
- Title
- The Fair God, or, the Last of the 'Tzins. A Tale of the Conquest of Mexico. (Warne's 'Crown' Library)
- Author
- Wallace, Lew
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Frederick Warne and Co.
- Place of Publication
- London and New York
- Date Published
- 1887
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾
- Weight
- 1.50 lbs
- Keywords
- 1887; Lew Wallace; Fair God; Christian; Christianity; Literature; Fiction; Novel; Classic.
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature & Fiction;
Terms of Sale
Pages Past Used and Rare Books
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About the Seller
Pages Past Used and Rare Books
Biblio member since 2017
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.
Glossary
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- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Cloth
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- New
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- 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....
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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