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A Hoosier Chronicle (First Printing)
by Meredith Nicholson
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/No Jacket
- Seller
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LA QUINTA, California, United States
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About This Item
BOSTON: Houghton Mifflin Co, 1912. First American Edition 1st Printing. Cloth. Fine/No Jacket. F. C. Yohn. From the recently auctioned collection of the Goldstone brothers (Steinbeck's bibliographers)--this one with the custom gold bookplate loosely applied to the front endpaper and M.B. Goldstone's penciled signature to the front free endpaper. Near fine in brown cloth and gilt lettering and decorations to the front board and spine. A couple of minor splotches only. A tight and square copy--clean throughout and with the original tissue guard covering the frontispiece. Typical of the high quality of the Goldstone collection. 606 pp plus 4 pp of adv at rear including ad for Johnston's "The Long Roll". A most collectible copy covering Indiana, the mid-west and Indiana politics. Additional pics available.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Classic First Editions
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- cfe12621
- Title
- A Hoosier Chronicle (First Printing)
- Author
- Meredith Nicholson
- Illustrator
- F. C. Yohn
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First American Edition 1st Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Co
- Place of Publication
- BOSTON
- Date Published
- 1912
- Keywords
- POLITICS INDIANA
- Bookseller catalogs
- M.B. Goldstone Collection;
Terms of Sale
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LA QUINTA, California
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- Fine
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Jacket
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