Houghton Mifflin Co.. Good+ in Good+ dust jacket. 1916. Early Printing. Hardcover. "November 1916" to copyright page with NAP; however appears to be an early but not first printing, as the jacket and cloth do not exactly match those of the true first. Plain green cloth with white letters; trace edgewear and lightly bumped spine ends. Jacket in archival plastic protector is lightly soiled, with several small closed tears and chips; $3.00 publisher's price to front flap; flaps and rear panel are otherwise blank. Foxing to text block. Binding sound, interior lightly toned and foxed. Gift inscription to ffep. Four plates as issued. Small bookshop label to rear pastedown. Not ex-library. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 220 pages .

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Bookseller: Old Editions Inc. (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 9368
Title: A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf
Author: Muir, John
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Good+ in Good+ dust jacket
Edition: Early Printing
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co.
Date Published: 1916
Bookseller catalogs: Travel;

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Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:

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....
Copyright page: The page in a book that describes the lineage of that book, typically including the book's author, publisher, date of...
FFEP: A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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....
Good+: A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
Soiled: Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
Flap(s): The portion of a book cover or cover jacket that folds into the book from front to back. The flap can contain biographical...