The Homes of Our Ancestors
by Halsey, R.T.H. and Elizabeth Tower
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good with no dust jacket
- Seller
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DEMING, New Mexico, United States
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About This Item
Garden City: Doubleday. Good with no dust jacket. 1946. Hardcover. Blue cloth boards, gilt eagle on cover and gilt titling on spine. Water spot on back cover, spine edge age darkened. Solid binding, light rubbing on edges. Clean unmarked pages. ; 10.0 X 7.0 X 1.25 inches; 302 pages .
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- Bookseller
- Readers' Cove Used Books & Gallery (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 4305
- Title
- The Homes of Our Ancestors
- Author
- Halsey, R.T.H. and Elizabeth Tower
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good with no dust jacket
- Publisher
- Garden City: Doubleday
- Date Published
- 1946
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DEMING, New Mexico
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- 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....
- 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...
- Gilt
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Cloth
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