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Iowa in War Times
by Byers, S.H.M
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good- with no dust jacket
- Seller
-
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States
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About This Item
Des Moines, IA: W.D. Condit & Co.. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1888. Hardcover. Green cloth binding rubbed at extremities; spine ends frayed; boards lightly scuffed; tiny closed tear to top edge of title page; a few leaves bent at top corner tips; leaf edges foxed, else a sturdy, tight & clean book. No dj. ; Good b&w portrait ils.; professionally rebacked in green cloth to match the original binding, new red leather backstrip label & new eps. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" ; 615 pages .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Hyde Brothers, Booksellers
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 44675
- Title
- Iowa in War Times
- Author
- Byers, S.H.M
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good- with no dust jacket
- Publisher
- W.D. Condit & Co.
- Place of Publication
- Des Moines, IA
- Date Published
- 1888
- Keywords
- American Civil War History, Iowa in the Civil War, Iowa History
- Bookseller catalogs
- US History: Civil War;
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
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Rebacked
- having had the material covering the spine replaced. ...
- 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...
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