Spirit Lake
by KANTOR, MacKinlay
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good in Good+ dust jacket
- Seller
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Littleton, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
Cleveland, Ohio: The World Publishing Company. Very Good in Good+ dust jacket. 1961. First Edition. Hard Cover. First edition, signed by the author on front free endpaper. Compelling historical fiction account of the 1857 massacre of settlers at Spirit Lake, Iowa in the frontier west by the Pulitzer-prize winning author of 'Andersonville'. --- In full dark blue cloth with gilt-stamped titling on cover & spine. Publisher's red topstain. With notes and map of the Spirit Lake area at rear of the volume. Jacket features Tim Kantor photo of his father. --- With light fraying to cover cloth and a white soiled spot on spine; else a firm, bright copy. Jacket with rubbing, especially at spine and crease points, bears original $6.95 flap price and in removable archival mylar protector.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 957 pages; Signed by Author .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bluebird Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 77882
- Title
- Spirit Lake
- Author
- KANTOR, MacKinlay
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Good+ dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- The World Publishing Company
- Place of Publication
- Cleveland, Ohio
- Date Published
- 1961
- Bookseller catalogs
- >>American History & Politics;
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About the Seller
Bluebird Books
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Littleton, Colorado
About Bluebird Books
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- 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....
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...