Memoir of the Life and Public Services of John Charles Fremont, Including an Account of His Explorations, Discoveries and Adventures on Five Successive Expeditions Across North America Continent [Hardcover]
by Bigelow, John
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fair/No Jacket
- Seller
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Seattle, Washington, United States
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About This Item
Derby and Jackson, 1856. First Edition. Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. Brown cloth with gilded titles. 8vo. A Fair copy. Book has extreme shelfwear, severely bumped corners, severe edgewear, sunning to the spine, foxing & toning to the pages, a split at the title page, a split at page 168, a damp stain that effects the last 50 pages of the book (text unaffected), many pencil notations on endpapers, and fraying to the top & bottom of the spine.
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- Bookseller
- Arundel Books of Seattle
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 606896
- Title
- Memoir of the Life and Public Services of John Charles Fremont, Including an Account of His Explorations, Discoveries and Adventures on Five Successive Expeditions Across North America Continent [Hardcover]
- Author
- Bigelow, John
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Derby and Jackson
- Date Published
- 1856
- Keywords
- WHAR.887, , , , , , , ,
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- First Edition
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- Shelfwear
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- Spine
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- Jacket
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- Cloth
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- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
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