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The Hiawatha Story
by Scribbins, Jim
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine
- Seller
-
Madison, Indiana, United States
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About This Item
Milwaukee, WI: Kalmbach Publishing Company, 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. Oblong quarto. 8.75 x 11.25 inches. 267 pp. Fine / Very Good. Original unclipped dust jacket, with watercolor art by Gil Reid, shows price of $17. Light brown cloth over boards. Black leather strip on front board stamped with silver Hiawatha logo. Spine lettering in silver on black field. Illustrated endpapers. Profusely illustrated with black and white photographs, including frontispiece. Top edge very lightly foxed, else Fine. Dust jacket shows some edge wear, minor rubbing near crown and foot of spine, half-inch chip on upper edge of front panel, two three-quarter-inch closed tears on lower edge of back panel, and two-inch closed tear in lower right corner of front panel. Dust jacket now in archival protective cover.
Synopsis
Originally published: Milwaukee : Kalmbach, 1970. Includes index.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Village Lights Bookstore, ABAA/ILAB
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 0000052
- Title
- The Hiawatha Story
- Author
- Scribbins, Jim
- Illustrator
- Reid, Gil (jacket art)
- Format/Binding
- Cloth over boards
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Kalmbach Publishing Company
- Place of Publication
- Milwaukee, WI
- Date Published
- 1970
- Pages
- 267
- Size
- 4to
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- trains, transportation
- Bookseller catalogs
- Transportation;
Terms of Sale
Village Lights Bookstore, ABAA/ILAB
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About the Seller
Village Lights Bookstore, ABAA/ILAB
Biblio member since 2008
Madison, Indiana
About Village Lights Bookstore, ABAA/ILAB
Village Lights Bookstore opened as a brick-and-mortar shop in 2008. We are a "mom & pop" business, and we live in the same building. We are members of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America, the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers, the American Booksellers Association, and the Great Lakes Independent Booksellers Association. We offer a modest, but diverse, selection of rare, collectible, and antiquarian items, as well as select higher quality new books. We carefully grade our books in accordance with IOBA Book Condition Definitions (https://www.ioba.org/conditions-definitions), describe them using standard ABAA terminology (https://www.abaa.org/glossary), and painstakingly package them to prevent damage in transit. We value direct communication, so please feel free to call if you have questions about our listings or to confirm that an item is still on hand. And consider visiting us on Main Street in the heart of downtown Madison, Indiana, the country's largest contiguous National Historic Landmark District, and a Designated Indiana Cultural District, on the banks of the beautiful Ohio River.
Glossary
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- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- 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....
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Quarto
- The term quarto is used to describe a page or book size. A printed sheet is made with four pages of text on each side, and the...
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