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How They Carried The Mail: From the Post Runners of King Sargon to the Air Mail of To-day
de Walker, Joseph
- Usado
- good
- Tapa dura
- Estado
- Good/No Jacket
- Librería
-
Beloit, Wisconsin, United States
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Sobre este artículo
New York: Junior Literary Guild, 1930. History of message delivery, from 3000 B.C., including ancient Egypt, Marathon, Queen Esther, Roman roads of Trajan's day, Roland v. the Saracens, King Richard, Benjamin Franklin, Nat Crane and steamship mail, railroads, Pony Express, Overland Stage, express trains, early airmail, Charles Lindbergh. For younger readers. Book club edition, but of a similar quality to the first edition. Hardcover, full grey cloth, green & orange titling & decoration. General wear, covers & page edges spotted/foxed; ink name date & place on free endsheet, gift note on half-title. No jacket. Text clean; [xiv], 305 pages; appendix giving air mail schedules, four color & eight b/w plates.. Reprint. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Frank Dobias. 7½" by 9¼".
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Detalles
- Librería
- Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- p0012
- Título
- How They Carried The Mail: From the Post Runners of King Sargon to the Air Mail of To-day
- Autor
- Walker, Joseph
- Ilustrador
- Frank Dobias
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Good
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- No Jacket
- Edición
- Reprint
- Editorial
- Junior Literary Guild
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 1930
- Palabras clave
- Post Office, USPS, Mailmen, Postal Carriers, Messengers, Philately
- Size
- 7½" by 9¼"
Términos de venta
Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
All books are subject to prior sale, though we make every effort to keep our inventory current. Books are returnable within ten days with prior notification. We will request extra shipping for large books and sets going to addresses outside the United States.
Sobre el vendedor
Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
Miembro de Biblio desde 2006
Beloit, Wisconsin
Sobre Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
Most of our stock is on-line only, though we have many books in three booths at Angela's Attic Antique Mall, 1020 Gardner Street in South Beloit, Illinois; a booth across the street at the Best of Beloit; and a large booth at the Lake Geneva Antique Mall, 829 Williams Street, Lake Geneva, WI. You may request to see any of our on-line inventory at any location with a few days' notice.
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- Book Club Edition
- A generic term denoting a book which was produced or distributed by one of any number of book club organizations. Usually the...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- 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...
