N.P.: The Plympton Historical Society, 1977. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Octavo. 576 pages. VOLUME TWO ONLY. Hardcover in green cloth. Binding has moderate wear, some smudging, scuffs, rubbing. There is a soil mark near the fore-edge of the front cover. Spine is sunned. All edges of text block are foxed. Illustrated endpapers are foxed. This is a special hand numbered copy of a limited edition printing. It is number 114, and Charles H. Bricknell of the Plympton Historical Society has signed the book. Text is toned, with occasional foxing.

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Bookseller: Pages Past Used and Rare Books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 047948
Title: Tales of Old Plympton VOLUME TWO ONLY
Author: Wright, Eugene A
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Good
Jacket Condition: No Jacket
Quantity Available: 1
Publisher: The Plympton Historical Society
Place of Publication: N.P.
Date Published: 1977
Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
Weight: 2.90 lbs
Keywords: 1977; Eugene A Wright; Massachusetts; Plympton; Local stories; History; Genealogy; MA; New England;
Bookseller catalogs: Americana; Genealogy;

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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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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....
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....
Octavo: Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
Rubbing: Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
Foxed: Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
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...
Sunned: Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...