Modern Blacksmithing: Rational Horse Shoeing and Wagon Making
by Holmstrom, J. G
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good minus/No DJ
- Seller
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Southampton, Massachusetts, United States
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About This Item
Chicago: Alhambra Book Co., 1900. Edition Not Specified. Good minus/No DJ. 12mo = 7-9". n/a. Printing Not Spec. Rare. Quarter blue leather surrounding spine and textured blue cloth over boards, gilt lettering and decoration on spine, four raised bands, marbled endpages, all edges dyed red. Edges well-worn, covers rubbed and have some dark staining, spine very worn with large piece of backstrip torn away at top and chips in bottom corners. Frontispiece portrait of author. Contains many pen and ink inline illustrations throughout. Pages lightly browned and smudge marks here and there, binding split at pp 94-95 but binding still good though loose, with all pages full intact. Neat writing in ink on endpages and frontispiece, appears to be by original owner.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Heritage Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- NF35353
- Title
- Modern Blacksmithing: Rational Horse Shoeing and Wagon Making
- Author
- Holmstrom, J. G
- Illustrator
- n/a
- Book Condition
- Used - Good minus
- Jacket Condition
- No DJ
- Edition
- Edition Not Specified
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Alhambra Book Co.
- Place of Publication
- Chicago
- Date Published
- 1900
- Pages
- 202pp
- Size
- 12mo = 7-9"
- Keywords
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- Technical;
Terms of Sale
Heritage Books
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About the Seller
Heritage Books
Biblio member since 2008
Southampton, Massachusetts
About Heritage Books
Our bookshop is located in the historic town library building of Southampton, Massachusetts. Southampton lies within the Pioneer Valley of Western Massachusetts with a view of Pomeroy Mountain to the West and Mt. Tom to the North. It is situated between the artistic, vibrant communities of Easthampton and Northampton and the city of Westfield. We have a collection of over 40,000 books with many more waiting to be unboxed and squeezed onto our shelves. The large double-door front entrance will lead you to our main floor where we hold a wide range of fiction and non-fiction titles, as well as a good selection of scarce and rare editions. The original fireplace is surrounded by hardbacks and you can peer out the original nine-foot windows. Take the staircase to the basement and you will find our large children's section and many shelves full of paperbacks. Our physical address is 225 College Highway/Route 10. Our mailing address is 241 College Highway & Clark St. P.O. Box 100 Southampton, MA 01073. The store hours indicated are by appointment only Monday through Friday, and Saturday and Sunday you can stop in. Please call to schedule an appointment if you can't make it to the store on the weekends from 11 am to 3 pm.
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- Edges
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- Spine
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- 12mo
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- Cloth
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- Gilt
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