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West to the Setting Sun
by Chalmers, Harvey
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Good/Good
- Seller
-
Manlius, New York, United States
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About This Item
Hardcover Book in Dust Jacket. Second Printing of the First Edition. Binding starting to seperate & is shaken but secure & all pages intact. Previous owner signed name in ink on 3rd free page. Jacket shows chipping & wear w/ several small pieces missing. Jacket spine darkened. Jacket now enclosed in a removable mylar protective sleeve. Signed by the author on the title page. Fictional account of the story of Joseph Brant (Thayendanegea ), Mohawk chief and leader of the People of the Longhouse of the Six Nations in the 18th Century.
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- Bookseller
- Limestone Village Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1498
- Title
- West to the Setting Sun
- Author
- Chalmers, Harvey
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover Book in Dust Jacket
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition/Second Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Macmillan
- Place of Publication
- Toronto
- Date Published
- 1944
- Pages
- 362
- Size
- 22 cm
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Biography & Autobiography; Brant, Joseph (Thayendanegea ); Fiction; General; Upstate New York; Historical Fiction; Iroquois; Mohawks;
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Returns accepted for 15 days after receipt of book if book does not meet condition as stated in the description.
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- Shaken
- A hardcover in which the text block is loose, but still attached to the binding.
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- 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...
- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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