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Book Condition: Used Good, clean, tight contents but for a bit of age toning to page edges; covers tearing at edges/spine; back cover detached but pr
Seller: Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB

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About Item: (Harrisburg, Pennsylvania): Clarence M. Busch, State Printer of Pennsylvania, 1893. ORIGINAL EDITION, NOT A REPRINT. Softcover. Good, clean, tight contents but for a bit of age toning to page edges; covers tearing at edges/spine; back cover detached but present; a bit soiled with dust from the exposition.. Tan stapled wraps with bw lettering and border. 218 pp. with 3 bw frontis pieces and numerous additional bw images. Pristine folding plan of the exposition. Publicity photo of Paderewski (and someone else on reverse), presumably cut from a program booklet at the exposition, laid in. Full of all sorts of interesting Pennsylvania facts that even this Pennsylvanian didn't know: 279 Pennsylvania birds; 95 varieties of wood native to Centre County; cereals, grasses, forage plants; coal and graphite; china and porcelain; etc., and, of course, the Liberty Bell. Paderewski's picture likely was in here, because he gave the inaugural concert for the exposition. He only performed on Steinway pianos, and… Read More
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