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George Washington: Anguish and Farewell (1793-1799)
by Flexner, James Thomas
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very good/very good
- Seller
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Wilmington, Vermont, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1972. First edition. Cloth. Very good/very good. (1972). Octavo (9" x 6"), teal cloth, gilt, in pictorial jacket. 554 pp. with index, bibliography and references. Very good in very good jacket. Jacket had a 1/4" closed tear on the back panel at the bottom and a 3/4 " closed tear at the top of the spine on the front panel. The price has been clipped, and there is a small crease at the bottom of the front flap. There is a spot on the bottom of the front cover which looks like glue, but it is faint. No attempt has been made to remove it. "George Washington: Anguish and Farewell is the fourth and final volume of one of the moat distinguished American biographies of our generation."
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- Bookseller
- Austin's Antiquarian Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 19336
- Title
- George Washington: Anguish and Farewell (1793-1799)
- Author
- Flexner, James Thomas
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good
- Jacket Condition
- very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Little, Brown and Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1972
- Keywords
- Colonial America; American Revolution; George Washington; Presidents; Presidential Biography
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About the Seller
Austin's Antiquarian Books
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Wilmington, Vermont
About Austin's Antiquarian Books
Austin's Antiquarian Books is a used, rare and out of print bookshop located on West Main Street in Wilmington, Vermont. At our shop we have a general stock of approximately 15,000 used, scarce and out-of-print books, with particular strength in American History, especially Theodore Roosevelt the West, Travel, Decorative Arts, Natural History, and Sporting. We also offer a selection of antique maps and prints, historical paper and ephemera.
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- 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...
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