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Historic Halifax
by Pacey, Elizabeth; Photography by Alvin Comiter
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good+
- ISBN 10
- 0888821034
- ISBN 13
- 9780888821034
- Seller
-
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
Willowdale, Ontario: Hounslow Press, 1988. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good+. Signed by Comiter and comes with handwritten note from Comiter! First edition, 1988, hardcover with golden cloth boards in dust jacket, oblong quarto, 159pp., illustrated in b&w. Book near fine with mild edgewear, binding tight, text clean bright and unmarked but with some mild foxing to edges of text block. DJ VG+ with rubbing, hint of edgewear.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Common Crow Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- B30787
- Title
- Historic Halifax
- Author
- Pacey, Elizabeth; Photography by Alvin Comiter
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- ISBN 10
- 0888821034
- ISBN 13
- 9780888821034
- Publisher
- Hounslow Press
- Place of Publication
- Willowdale, Ontario
- Date Published
- 1988
- Keywords
- Photography
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About the Seller
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- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- 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...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
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