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Mount Vernon, Its Children, Its Romances, Its Allied Families And Mansions

Mount Vernon, Its Children, Its Romances, Its Allied Families And Mansions

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Mount Vernon, Its Children, Its Romances, Its Allied Families And Mansions

by Lowther, Minnie Kendall

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  • Hardcover
  • first
Condition
Very Good- in Poor dust jacket
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Philadelphia: John C. Winston. Very Good- in Poor dust jacket. 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. Chapters include Mt. Vernon, The American Ancestory of George Washington, Nelly Custis, The Arlington Estate, The Lees at Arlington, etc. Original blue cloth covers with gilt spine and cover lettering and a pictorial pasteon of Mt. Vernon on the front cover. There is a small number on the front end paper (1516), spotting to the spine, a few spots to the foredge, and it appears an old bookplate may have been removed from the front end paper, else a nice clean, tight and unmarked book with no interior or exterior markings. The dust jacket lacks the spine, but front and rear panels in in a removable acetate dust jacket protector now. ; B&W Illustrations; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 282 pages .

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Bookseller
Peninsula Books US (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #
17470
Title
Mount Vernon, Its Children, Its Romances, Its Allied Families And Mansions
Author
Lowther, Minnie Kendall
Format/Binding
Hardcover
Book Condition
Used - Very Good- in Poor dust jacket
Edition
First Edition
Publisher
John C. Winston
Place of Publication
Philadelphia
Date Published
1930
Keywords
Colonial America, George Washington, Mt. Vernon, Presidents

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Poor
A book with significant wear and faults. A poor condition book is still a reading copy with the full text still readable. Any...
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...
Bookplate
Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
Jacket
Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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...
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....
Cloth
"Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
Tight
Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.

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