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New Purchase: Or, Seven and a Half Years in the Far West [2 Vol. Set]
by Carlton, Robert
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fair with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Moab, Utah, United States
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About This Item
New York: D. Appleton & Co.. Fair with no dust jacket. 1843. First Edition. Hardcover. Complete two volume set, in fair condition only. Brown paper boards have beige paper labels with black lettering affixed to spines. Both volumes have significant chipping and shelf wear with boards exposed on edges; cracking along joints; some soiling and staining. Both have the remaining material on spines held on with tape. Volume 2 has a crack in the fore-edge of the front board. Some cracking to page gutters, but both volumes still have tight bindings. Interiors have minor foxing. Faint stamp from previous owner on front free endpaper of both books. The first volume has 300 pages and the second has 316. Volume 2 also has 16 pages of advertisements at the rear. Academic and Christian minister Baynard Rush Hall (1793-1863) authored this title under the pen name Robert Carlton, Esq. The partially fictionalized account describes pioneer life in Bloomington, Indiana, where Hall served as the first faculty member of what became Indiana University. Sabin 29728; Howes H-48; BAL 6908.; Small 8vo 7½" - 8" tall .
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- Bookseller
- Back of Beyond Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 024532
- Title
- New Purchase: Or, Seven and a Half Years in the Far West [2 Vol. Set]
- Author
- Carlton, Robert
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair with no dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- D. Appleton & Co.
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1843
- Keywords
- Memoir, Frontier, Indiana
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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About the Seller
Back of Beyond Books
Biblio member since 2022
Moab, Utah
About Back of Beyond Books
Located in the heart of the desert southwest Back of Beyond Books is an indie bookstore in Moab, Utah. The name of the store was drawn from one of Edward Abbey's most well-known fiction titles, The Monkey Wrench Gang. We specialize in natural history, environmental literature, southwestern guidebooks & maps, Native American books, and Western history. But we also carry a wild assortment of fiction, science, philosophy, current affairs, rare books, and generally other cool stuff.
Glossary
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- Shelf Wear
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- BAL
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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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