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The Susquehanna
by Carl Carmer; Stow Wengenroth [illus.]
- Used
- very good
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good +
- Seller
-
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Rinehart & Co, 1955. Very Good/Good +. New York: Rinehart & Co., 1955. First Edition, First Printing with "R" present on title page verso. Octavo (21cm.); publisher's cloth in black pictorial price-clipped dust jacket; xiii,[1],493pp.; pictorial double title-page printed in green and black, illus. throughout. Jacket extremities a bit chipped and worn with coin-sized loss at top margin of upper panel affecting one word without loss of sense, additional shallow loss at spine crown, spine a bit cocked, light shelf wear to cloth extremities, else Very Good and sound overall. Forms part of the Rivers of America series.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Capitol Hill Books, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 8639
- Title
- The Susquehanna
- Author
- Carl Carmer; Stow Wengenroth [illus.]
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good +
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Rinehart & Co
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1955
Terms of Sale
Capitol Hill Books, ABAA
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
Capitol Hill Books, ABAA
Biblio member since 2019
Washington, District of Columbia
About Capitol Hill Books, ABAA
Capitol Hill Books is a used bookstore in the Eastern Market neighborhood of Washington, DC. We have three floors of quality used books, first editions, and rare books.
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- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- 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....
- Publisher's cloth
- A hardcover book comprised of cloth over hard pasteboard boards. ...
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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...
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