WASHINGTON: The City and the Seat of Government
by Forbes-Lindsay, C. H
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good+/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
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Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
Philadelphia, PA: The John C. Winston Company, 1908. 442 pp. Original dark green cloth covers w/ gilt title on spine, and elaborate gilt decoration on front cover. Binding lightly soiled and rubbed w/ discoloration to bottom edges. Top edge gilt. Light foxing to blank endpapers. Previous owner's name in pencil on front blank endpaper. Illust. w/ b/w plates.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good+/No Dust Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Shoemaker Booksellers (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 24527DC
- Title
- WASHINGTON: The City and the Seat of Government
- Author
- Forbes-Lindsay, C. H
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- The John C. Winston Company
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia, PA
- Date Published
- 1908
- Keywords
- AMERICANA WASHINGTON D. C. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA NATION'S CAPITAL DESCRIPTION AND TRAVEL NATIONAL CAPITAL POLITICS GOVERNMENT AMERICAN HISTORY UNITED STATES NONFICTION GENERAL ILLUSTRATED
- Bookseller catalogs
- Politics;
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Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
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Glossary
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- Top Edge Gilt
- Top edge gilt refers to the practice of applying gold or a gold-like finish to the top of the text block (the edges the pages...
- 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....
- 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...
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...