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The Papers of Willie Person Mangum. Volume One 1807-1832
by Mangum, Willie Person; Edited by Henry Thomas Shanks
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Greensboro, North Carolina, United States
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About This Item
Raleigh: State Department of Archives and History, 1950. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Octavo. 613 pages, indexed. Hardcover bound in burgundy cloth. Moderate wear to the binding, which has some bumps and spots. Outside edges of the text block are dust-stained and foxed. A sound copy with secure inner hinges. Text is a little toned and shows some occasional foxing at the fore edge. Volume One only, covering 1807 to 1832.
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- Bookseller
- Pages Past Used and Rare Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 049463
- Title
- The Papers of Willie Person Mangum. Volume One 1807-1832
- Author
- Mangum, Willie Person; Edited by Henry Thomas Shanks
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition First Printing
- Publisher
- State Department of Archives and History
- Place of Publication
- Raleigh
- Date Published
- 1950
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Weight
- 3.50 lbs
- Keywords
- 1950; Willie Person Mangum; Papers; Documents; North Carolina Governor; History; Henry Thomas Shanks; 19th Century.
- Bookseller catalogs
- North Carolina; Law;
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Pages Past Used and Rare Books
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Greensboro, North Carolina
About Pages Past Used and Rare Books
Pages Past is a small used & rare bookshop located a few blocks from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Since 1996 we have been serving the Triad community as well as customers from around the world. We have around 15-20,000 volumes in our shop. We specialize in North Carolina, Virginia, Civil War, Old Leather, Christianity, Eastern and Western Philosophies, and the simply unusual. We very likely have the oldest books in Greensboro; we keep a nice selection of antiquarian volumes and scholarly books.
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- Cloth
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Bumps
- Indicates that the affected part of the book has been impacted in such a way so as to cause a flattening, indention, or light...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- 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...
- Fore Edge
- The portion of a book that is opposite the spine. That part of a book which faces the wall when shelved in a traditional...
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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