Richmond: The Story of a City (Signed)
by Dabney, Virginius
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- Seller
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Greensboro, North Carolina, United States
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About This Item
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1976. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 8vo. 412 pages, indexed. Hardcover in tan dust jacket. There is light wear to the jacket from rubbing and some scuffing along the spine. Jacket is price clipped. Edges are lightly bumped. DJ has been placed in a protective mylar sleeve. Outer edges of the text block are heavily foxed. Some foxing to the endpaper. INSCRIBED by the author on the front endpaper. The text is clean and sound. Illustrated with photographs.
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- Bookseller
- Pages Past Used and Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 051693
- Title
- Richmond: The Story of a City (Signed)
- Author
- Dabney, Virginius
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Doubleday & Company, Inc.
- Place of Publication
- Garden City, NY
- Date Published
- 1976
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾\" tall
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- 1976; Virginius Dabney; Virginia; Americana; State history; Richmond, Signed
- Bookseller catalogs
- Genealogy; Virginia;
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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.
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- 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...
- Inscribed
- When a book is described as being inscribed, it indicates that a short note written by the author or a previous owner has been...
- 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....