Click for full-size.
Year Book of the Commercial, Banking, and Manufacturing Interests of Chicago, with a General Review of Its Business Progress, 1885-6
by [Anonymous]
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good with no dust jacket
- Seller
-
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Chicago: S. Ferd. Howe. Good with no dust jacket. 1886. Hardcover. Grey cloth binding rubbed at extremities; spine ends & corners frayed; backstrip browned & scuffed; boards spotted & soiled; a few leaves bent at corners; owner's stamp on front paste-down & name in ink on two endpapers; leaf edges, paste-downs, endpapers, a few pages & margins foxed, else a solid book. No dj.; Many black & white illustrations; "with Compliments of Ogden, Sheldon & Co." printed in gilt ink on front board. ; 8vo; 336 pages .
Reviews
(Log in or Create an Account first!)
Details
- Bookseller
- Hyde Brothers, Booksellers
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 46218
- Title
- Year Book of the Commercial, Banking, and Manufacturing Interests of Chicago, with a General Review of Its Business Progress, 1885-6
- Author
- [Anonymous]
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good with no dust jacket
- Publisher
- S. Ferd. Howe
- Place of Publication
- Chicago
- Date Published
- 1886
- Keywords
- Chicago Business History, Chicago Banking History, Antique Books about Chicago, Chicago Collectibles
- Bookseller catalogs
- Economics;
Terms of Sale
Hyde Brothers, Booksellers
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Hyde Brothers, Booksellers
Biblio member since 2019
Fort Wayne, Indiana
About Hyde Brothers, Booksellers
Open shop with over 125,000 volumes. We try to maintain a good selection in all categories and have a fondness for the odd & obscure. Specialties include History, Nature, Literature, Religion, Mystery, SF, Art, Children's, Humor, Indiana
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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...
- 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...
- 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....
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- Paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
This Book’s Categories
Collecting food and drink books
Nothing quite whets the appetite for rare and collectible books like old and vintage cookbooks. Be sure to check out our cook books and food section of our rare book room.
How to tell if a signature is genuine
Author's signatures can undoubtedly increase the value of a rare book or first edition. The more scarce the book is, the more an autograph adds to its value. But how to tell if the signature is real? Find out how you can avoid common pitfalls in identifying an author's signature.
