Washington: City and Capital (American Guide Series)
by Federal Writers' Project, Works Progress Administration
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fair
- Seller
-
Portland, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
Washington DC, 1937. First edition. Cloth. Fair. 8vo, 1140 pp., illus., maps. Ex-library with usual stamps and marks, card pocket partially removed from front pastedown, tape stains to front free endpaper. Spine cocked and pulled, covers rubbed and worn, soiling to page edges and endpapers, front hinge cracked, dampstain lightly affecing bottom page margins throughout.
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- Seller
- ANTHOLOGY BOOKSELLERS
(US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 18987
- Title
- Washington: City and Capital (American Guide Series)
- Author
- Federal Writers' Project, Works Progress Administration
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Place of Publication
- Washington DC
- Date Published
- 1937
- Keywords
- W.P.A. , , , ,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Americana;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
ANTHOLOGY BOOKSELLERS
Biblio member since 2005
Portland, Oregon
About ANTHOLOGY BOOKSELLERS
We are a independent bookstore doing business primarily on the internet, book shows and by appointment, specializing in out-of-print and rare books in the Arts, Literature and Humanities.
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- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Fair
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- 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...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- 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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