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Raleigh Rutherford Haynes: A History of His Life and Achievements
by Haynes, Mrs. Grover C
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair/No Jacket
- Seller
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Greensboro, North Carolina, United States
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About This Item
Asheville, NC: The Miller Printing Co., 1954. Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. Atlas Folio - over 23 - 25" tall. Octavo. 99 pages. Soft cover bound in burgundy wrappers. Heavy wear and damping to the binding. The paper on the spine is fading and chipping at the ends along with some other tears. Binding a bit cocked. A partly printed / handwritten slip is laid in loosely noting that this copy was presented to the owner by the children of Raleigh Rutherford Haynes. Map endpapers of Rutherford County, North Carolina. There is a color family crest at the front, which page is detached from the binding. The text is illustrated with black and white photos. The text is generally clean. Not a pretty copy. A reading or reference copy only.
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- Bookseller
- Pages Past Used and Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 051090
- Title
- Raleigh Rutherford Haynes: A History of His Life and Achievements
- Author
- Haynes, Mrs. Grover C
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- The Miller Printing Co.
- Place of Publication
- Asheville, NC
- Date Published
- 1954
- Size
- Atlas Folio - over 23 - 25"
- Weight
- 0.50 lbs
- Keywords
- 1954; Mrs. Grover C. Haynes; Raleigh Rutherford Haynes; Rutherford County, North Carolina; Asheville; Mills; Mill town; Cotton; Mill.
- Bookseller catalogs
- North Carolina;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Pages Past Used and Rare Books
Biblio member since 2017
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.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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....
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Folio
- A folio usually indicates a large book size of 15" in height or larger when used in the context of a book description. Further,...
- Wrappers
- The paper covering on the outside of a paperback. Also see the entry for pictorial wraps, color illustrated coverings for...
- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
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