Pere Marquette: Priest, Pioneer and Adventurer
by REPPLIER, Agnes
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Galena, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
Garden City: Doubleday, Doran and Company, 1929. Hardcover. Illustrations by Harry Cimino. 8vo. Black cloth with color paper labels, pictorial price-clipped dust jacket. 298pp. Color frontispiece and pictorial title page. Very good. Spine faintly sunned; internally tight and fine; jacket complete and attractive, with a few edge chips. A tight, attractive early (not first) printing of this biography of the early French Jesuit missionary who explored the Mississippi River and founded Michigan's first European settlement."Compliments / of the / AUTHOR" heavy stock 3½" X 2" card tipped to front flyleaf.
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- Bookseller
- Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 46290
- Title
- Pere Marquette: Priest, Pioneer and Adventurer
- Author
- REPPLIER, Agnes
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Doubleday, Doran and Company
- Place of Publication
- Garden City
- Date Published
- 1929
- Bookseller catalogs
- Books; Western Americana; Religion;
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Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA
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About the Seller
Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA
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Galena, Illinois
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- Cloth
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- 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
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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....
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.