Marse Chan: A Tale of Old Virginia
by Page, Thomas Nelson
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair/No Jacket
- Seller
-
Greensboro, North Carolina, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1892. Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. W. T. Smedley. 8vo. 53 pages. Hardcover in white cloth with green illustrations on front board. The binding is smudged, damped. One of the damp spots has made part of the gilt title unreadable. Corners are bumped. Rear board cloth has some bubbling up. "Sam Erwin, Dec 25, 1895" is stamped on the endpapers, which are also toned. Text is foxed, has occasional smudging on some pages.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Pages Past Used and Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 048061
- Title
- Marse Chan: A Tale of Old Virginia
- Author
- Page, Thomas Nelson
- Illustrator
- W. T. Smedley
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Charles Scribner's Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1892
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Weight
- 1.50 lbs
- Keywords
- 1892; Thomas Nelson Page. Virginia. African American; W. T. Smedley; Negro; Civil War; Fiction; Slaves; Slavery; Ante-Bellum; The South; Southern.
- Bookseller catalogs
- African-American; Southern Literature; Virginia;
Terms of Sale
Pages Past Used and Rare Books
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About the Seller
Pages Past Used and Rare Books
Biblio member since 2017
Greensboro, North Carolina
About Pages Past Used and Rare Books
Pages Past is a small used & rare bookshop located a few blocks from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Since 1996 we have been serving the Triad community as well as customers from around the world. We have around 15-20,000 volumes in our shop. We specialize in North Carolina, Virginia, Civil War, Old Leather, Christianity, Eastern and Western Philosophies, and the simply unusual. We very likely have the oldest books in Greensboro; we keep a nice selection of antiquarian volumes and scholarly books.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...