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The Bounds of Delaware. Signed copy.
by LUNT, Dudley
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, United States
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About This Item
Wilmington, Delaware: Printed by the Star Publishing Company, (1947). First edition. Octavo (9.5" x 6.5"), x & 69 pages plus 6 illustrations on 4 plates. Publisher's blue cloth with an applied gilt label on the upper cover, in pictorial dust jacket.
Slight edge wear, sporadic foxing, previous owner's name & date in pencil at the half-title page, otherwise very good in soiled dust jacket with edge wear including nicks & a couple of short tears without loss, a good or better example.
"This account presents a novel point of view and an arresting tale of this little known history of the first state in the union." ~Excerpted from the dust jacket.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Citation Books, ABAA/ ILAB
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1814
- Title
- The Bounds of Delaware. Signed copy.
- Author
- LUNT, Dudley
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Printed by the Star Publishing Company
- Place of Publication
- Wilmington, Delaware
- Date Published
- (1947)
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Boundary Lines, Mason and Dixon Line, Dudley Lunt, Signed
- Bookseller catalogs
- American History; Signed; Mid Atlantic; Geography;
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Hilton Head Island, South Carolina
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Glossary
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- First State
- used in book collecting to refer to a book from the earliest run of a first edition, generally distinguished by a change in some...
- 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...
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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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