Life, Explorations and Public Services of John Charles Fremont
by Upham, Charles Wentworth (1802-1875)
- Used
- first
- Condition
- Near fine. 19th century binding of calf spine and fore corners with brown pebbled cloth sides, spine ornamented and ruled in bla
- Seller
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Annapolis, Maryland, United States
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- Bookseller
- Back Creek Books LLC, ABAA/ILAB (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1415
- Title
- Life, Explorations and Public Services of John Charles Fremont
- Author
- Upham, Charles Wentworth (1802-1875)
- Illustrator
- Frontispiece engraved portrait, woodcut plates
- Format/Binding
- Three quarter leather with pebbled cloth sides. Octavo. 356 pages
- Book Condition
- Used - Near fine. 19th century binding of calf spine and fore corners with brown pebbled cloth sides, spine ornamented and ruled in bla
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Ticknor and Fields
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1856
- Keywords
- California, presidential politics, campaigns, republican party, John C. Fremont, anti-slavery, abolition, exploration, great basin, Rocky Mountains, western americana
- Bookseller catalogs
- History & Politics; Americana;
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Back Creek Books LLC, ABAA/ILAB
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About the Seller
Back Creek Books LLC, ABAA/ILAB
About Back Creek Books LLC, ABAA/ILAB
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- Spine Label
- The paper or leather descriptive tag attached to the spine of the book, most commonly providing the title and author of the...
- Pebbled
- Pebbled cloth or leather describes the covering of a hardcover book with a decorative texture of repeated small raised bumps,...
- 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....
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Calf
- Calf or calf hide is a common form of leather binding. Calf binding is naturally a light brown but there are ways to treat the...
- 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...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...