PADDLE AND PORTAGE, FROM MOOSEHEAD LAKE TO THE AROOSTOOK RIVER, MAINE
by Steele, Thomas Sedgwick
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Yarmouthport, Massachusetts, United States
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About This Item
Estes and Lauriat, 1882. First Edition. hard cover. Good. Boston: Estes and Lauriat. 1882. First Edition. 148pp + 2pp adverts. Hardcover, no jacket. Dark green boards, with stamped black and gilt titling/decoration. Illustrated with 63 b/w drawings. Ex-lib. Good condtion. Boards moderately worn with light fabric fraying at tips and top/bottom of spine, and bumps to the tips. An attractive book to hold as extensive decoration is still bright. Map at rear is present, with tears at folds. Some library markings and stickers. Scattered grime and age spots internally. Securely bound, though the rear hinge has a little play in it. The story of the author's canoe trip through Maine in 1880. (cfm)
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Details
- Seller
- Parnassus Book Service (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 23770
- Title
- PADDLE AND PORTAGE, FROM MOOSEHEAD LAKE TO THE AROOSTOOK RIVER, MAINE
- Author
- Steele, Thomas Sedgwick
- Format/Binding
- Hard cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Estes and Lauriat
- Date Published
- 1882
- Keywords
- MAINE, CANOE, PORTAGE, MOOSEHEAD LAKE, AROOSTOOK RIVER
Terms of Sale
Parnassus Book Service
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About the Seller
Parnassus Book Service
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Yarmouthport, Massachusetts
About Parnassus Book Service
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- First Edition
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- Gilt
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- Bumps
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- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.