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Ye Kingdome of Accawmacke or the Eastern Shore of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century
by Wise, Jennings Cropper
- Used
- poor
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Poor/No Jacket
- Seller
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Greensboro, North Carolina, United States
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About This Item
Richmond, Virginia : The Bell Book and Stationary Company , 1911. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Poor/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Octavo. 406 pages, indexed, Hardcover bound in gray cloth. There is considerable wear to the binding. The edges are bumped and beginning to fray. Front inner hinge open and peeling back from the text block a bit. The text block is shaken and some of the sewing on the spine is loosening. The text is toned.
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- Bookseller
- Pages Past Used and Rare Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 050063
- Title
- Ye Kingdome of Accawmacke or the Eastern Shore of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century
- Author
- Wise, Jennings Cropper
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Poor
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- The Bell Book and Stationary Company
- Place of Publication
- Richmond, Virginia
- Date Published
- 1911
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Weight
- 1.50 lbs
- Keywords
- 1911; Jennings Crooper Wise; Virgina; Virginia History; Virginia Shore; Accomac; Northampton; Virginia Historical Society; Genealogy; Geneology; Rare.
- Bookseller catalogs
- Genealogy; Virginia;
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About the Seller
Pages Past Used and Rare Books
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Greensboro, North Carolina
About Pages Past Used and Rare Books
Pages Past is a small used & rare bookshop located a few blocks from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Since 1996 we have been serving the Triad community as well as customers from around the world. We have around 15-20,000 volumes in our shop. We specialize in North Carolina, Virginia, Civil War, Old Leather, Christianity, Eastern and Western Philosophies, and the simply unusual. We very likely have the oldest books in Greensboro; we keep a nice selection of antiquarian volumes and scholarly books.
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- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- 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...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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....
- Shaken
- A hardcover in which the text block is loose, but still attached to the binding.
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
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