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Tales of the Southern Border
by Webber, C. W
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- g
- Seller
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Santa Monica, California, United States
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About This Item
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1887. Hardcover. g. Quarto. 400pp. Original red cloth with black-stamped borders on covers and spine and gilt lettering on spine. Fascinating work being a collection of stories occuring along the Texas borders of the Great South-west and South. This work contains 2 wood-block illustrations. Some age-wear on binding with spine age-toned, upper front corner rubbed and head of spine chipped. Hinges starting. Very minor age-toning along paper margin. Binding in overall fair, interior in good to very good condition.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 27122
- Title
- Tales of the Southern Border
- Author
- Webber, C. W
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - g
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- J. B. Lippincott Company
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia
- Date Published
- 1887
- Keywords
- American pioneers, Western stories, Illustrated, Wood-block illustrations, Reference, American literature
Terms of Sale
Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller
Biblio member since 2009
Santa Monica, California
About Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller
We offer a broad selection of rare, out-of-print and antiquarian books with an emphasis on photography, architecture, art, Judaica, Bibles, Weimar Germany and the Third Reich, modernism, Olympic Games, erotica and foreign-language works, especially German, Hebrew, Polish and Yiddish. We also provide appraisal, auction, consulting and rental services.
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- Quarto
- The term quarto is used to describe a page or book size. A printed sheet is made with four pages of text on each side, and the...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- G
- Good describes the average used and worn book that has all pages or leaves present. Any defects must be noted. (as defined by AB...
- 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....
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