The Royal Highway : (El Camino Real)
by Edwin Corle
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very good +/good +
- Seller
-
Gridley, California, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1949. First Trade Edition. Cloth. Very good +/good +. A very good plus first trade edition (stated first edition) in a good plus dust jacket. Red cloth-covered boards with black title-stampiing. Wear to top and bottom edges of book. Deckled pages. Map endpapers. Dust jacket is price clipped and taped into older Brodart archival cover. jacket showing loss and short tears at top edge. 351 pp. including index. Octavo. The story of California's famed Highway 101.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Uncommon Works (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1061
- Title
- The Royal Highway : (El Camino Real)
- Author
- Edwin Corle
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good +
- Jacket Condition
- good +
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Trade Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Bobbs-Merrill
- Place of Publication
- Indianapolis
- Date Published
- 1949
- Keywords
- California, highways, roads, travel
- Bookseller catalogs
- California & the West;
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About the Seller
Uncommon Works
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Gridley, California
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- Brodart
- Generally used to refer to a clear plastic cover that is sometimes added to the dustjacket or outside covering of a book. The...
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...