The Official Guide Book to Philadelphia: A New Handbook for Strangers and Citizens
by Westcott, Thompson
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fair
- Seller
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Kutztown, Pennsylvania, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Philadelphia, PA: Porter and Coates, 1875. Book. Fair. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Red flexible cloth, lettered/illus. in gilt and black. Worn but complete, with cloth split along both joints (binding firm), rubbed cover edges with some exposure, covers typically soiled and rubbed. Several early and late leaves are ragged and/or chipped along fore-edges, with the early leaves (prior to title page and main text) showing some text loss. xvi,425,72 pp., illus., with advertising at rear, lacking map. A copy lacking elegance, but very scarce in any form..
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- Bookseller
- Saucony Book Shop (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 063471
- Title
- The Official Guide Book to Philadelphia: A New Handbook for Strangers and Citizens
- Author
- Westcott, Thompson
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Porter and Coates
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia, PA
- Date Published
- 1875
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7&
- Bookseller catalogs
- Pennsylvania: Philadelphia;
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Saucony Book Shop
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About the Seller
Saucony Book Shop
Biblio member since 2005
Kutztown, Pennsylvania
About Saucony Book Shop
The Saucony Book Shop, located in the heart of scenic rural Berks County, epicenter of Pennsylvania German folk culture (our shop specialty), offers a full range of gently used, rare, and antiquarian books, with many volumes of scholarly merit and an unabashed emphasis on the quaint, the curious, and the utterly obscure. We make no attempt to be a general-service book shop. Our inventory is highly selective, individually chosen from among the hundreds of thousands of books to which we have access annually at auctions, library and estate sales, and through individual scouts and vendors. We do not handle material that does not meet our expectations in terms of condition or interest to our specialized, idiosyncratic customers. Despite maintaining a browsing inventory of more than 15,000 volumes, we have minimized our carbon footprint by maintaining our entire operation in a cozy ca. 1890 barn and lean-to adjacent to an historic creamery in rural Maxatawny Township. Our shop is available for browsing by appointment and occasionally, in temperate weather, by chance, so email or call ahead to peruse the eclectic selection gracing our shelves, or ask our ferociously over-read staff for recommendations. Selling antiquarian books of merit since 1981. Full search and appraisal services; always keenly interested in purchasing quality used books, whether by the piece or by the bushel. Thanks for reading about us! Go placidly amid the noise and haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- 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...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...