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A MOBILE SEXTET: Papers Read Before the Alabama Historical Association 1952-1971
by Delaney, Caldwell
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+/No Dust Jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0940882159
- ISBN 13
- 9780940882157
- Seller
-
Williamsburg, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
Mobile, Alabama: The Haunted Bookshop, 1981. 187 pages. Six essays on the history of Mobile, Alabama, by the longtime Director of the Museum of the City of Mobile. SIGNED by the author and inscribed by him to Alabama native and 4-star Admiral Harold Page Smith, the former NATO Supreme Allied Commander Atlantic. The book is in very good+ condition: clean and tight, with some relatively minor rubbing on the gilt decoration on the front cover.. SIGNED. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+/No Dust Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.
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- Bookseller
- Tennyson Williams, Books and Fine Art
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- W1633
- Title
- A MOBILE SEXTET: Papers Read Before the Alabama Historical Association 1952-1971
- Author
- Delaney, Caldwell
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0940882159
- ISBN 13
- 9780940882157
- Publisher
- The Haunted Bookshop
- Place of Publication
- Mobile, Alabama
- Date Published
- 1981
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Bookseller catalogs
- Southern Americana; Autographs and Signed Books;
Terms of Sale
Tennyson Williams, Books and Fine Art
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About the Seller
Tennyson Williams, Books and Fine Art
Biblio member since 2004
Williamsburg, Virginia
About Tennyson Williams, Books and Fine Art
Our office, located in historic Williamsburg, Virginia, is open by appointment or by chance. We are antiquarian booksellers who buy and sell carefully selected books for collectors and researchers in many genre. We also sell important autographs and photographs as well as original art, including wood engravings by Winslow Homer and J. J. Lankes; lithographs by Miró, Matisse, Calder, Wengenroth, and others; and works from the American Etching Revival. You can reach us by telephone: (757)378-5400; or by email: twbooks1@cox.net.
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Inscribed
- When a book is described as being inscribed, it indicates that a short note written by the author or a previous owner has been...
- 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...
- 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...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
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