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Starr King in California
de William Day Simonds
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Good +/missing
- Librería
-
Gridley, California, United States
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Sobre este artículo
San Francisco: Paul Elder and Company., 1917. First Edition. 1/4 cloth. Good +/missing. A good plus first edition. Blue cloth under parchment boards with gilt accent and gilt title stamping on spine. Rubbed joints and bumped and frayed corners. Water stain on front cover (see photo). Binding is sturdy and square. loss on foot of spine. Deckled pages, previous owner's name on front pastedown. Frontis mounted portrait. Page IX showing loss, likely from printer, at hinge, not affecting text. Light pencilled marginalia on a few pages. 4 preliminary leaves, vii-x, 105 pages, 1 leaf. 12mo, 5 1/2 x 8 inches tall. Contents: In old New England -- California in 1860 -- California's hour of decision -- Philanthropist and preacher -- In retrospect. Thomas Starr King (December 17, 1824 – March 4, 1864), often known as Starr King, was an American Universalist and Unitarian minister, influential in California politics during the American Civil War, and a Freemason. Starr King spoke zealously in favor of the Union and was credited by Abraham Lincoln with preventing California from becoming a separate republic. He is sometimes referred to as "the orator who saved the nation." -- wikipedia
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Detalles
- Librería
- Uncommon Works
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 1028
- Título
- Starr King in California
- Autor
- William Day Simonds
- Formato/Encuadernación
- 1/4 cloth
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Good +
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- missing
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- First Edition
- Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Editorial
- Paul Elder and Company.
- Lugar de publicación
- San Francisco
- Fecha de publicación
- 1917
- Palabras clave
- biography, civil war, California, secession
- Catálogos del vendedor
- California & the West;
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Uncommon Works
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Gridley, California
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- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Marginalia
- Marginalia, in brief, are notes written in the margins, or beside the text of a book by a previous owner. This is very...
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- 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...
- 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Parchment
- Pages or book covering made from a prepared animal skin. Parchment describes any animal skin used for books, while vellum is a...
