Six Years with the Texas Rangers 1875 to 1881
by GILLETT, James B
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- Hardcover
- Condition
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- Seller
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Galena, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
Chicago: R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company, 1943. Hardcover. Edited by Milo Milton Quaife. 16mo. Burgundy cloth with gilt spine lettering, rules and device. xxxii, 364pp. Top edge gilt. Tissue-guarded frontispiece, foldout map, illustration. Very good. Faint binding wear only and endpapers slightly age toned. A tight and nice volume in the annual "Lakeside Classics" series of Americana reprints, keepsakes produced for customers and employees. First published privately in 1921 and then as edited by Quaife in 1925 (Yale University Press). BASIC TEXAS BOOKS 76 (C).
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- Bookseller
- Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 45967
- Title
- Six Years with the Texas Rangers 1875 to 1881
- Author
- GILLETT, James B
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company
- Place of Publication
- Chicago
- Date Published
- 1943
- Bookseller catalogs
- Books; Western Americana; Military History;
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About the Seller
Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA
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Galena, Illinois
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- 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....
- Device
- Especially for older books, a printer's device refers to an identifying mark, also sometimes called a printer's mark, on the...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Top Edge Gilt
- Top edge gilt refers to the practice of applying gold or a gold-like finish to the top of the text block (the edges the pages...