Geographic and Cultural Names in Virginia
by Biggs, Thomas H
- Used
- good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Greensboro, North Carolina, United States
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About This Item
Charlottesville, VA: Virginia Division of Mineral Resources, 1974. Soft cover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Octavo. 374 pages. Softcover in grey wrappers. Binding is sunned at edges of covers and along entire spine. There are vertical cracks in the spine, which also has a little wrinkling. Text is clean. There's a pocket in the back of the book that appears to have held possibly a map at one time but the item that was in the pocket is missing.
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- Bookseller
- Pages Past Used and Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 048146
- Title
- Geographic and Cultural Names in Virginia
- Author
- Biggs, Thomas H
- Format/Binding
- Soft cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Virginia Division of Mineral Resources
- Place of Publication
- Charlottesville, VA
- Date Published
- 1974
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Weight
- 1.50 lbs
- Keywords
- 1974; Thomas H Biggs; Virginia; Geography; Names;
- Bookseller catalogs
- Virginia;
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Pages Past is a small used & rare bookshop located a few blocks from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Since 1996 we have been serving the Triad community as well as customers from around the world. We have around 15-20,000 volumes in our shop. We specialize in North Carolina, Virginia, Civil War, Old Leather, Christianity, Eastern and Western Philosophies, and the simply unusual. We very likely have the oldest books in Greensboro; we keep a nice selection of antiquarian volumes and scholarly books.
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- 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....
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- 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...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Wrappers
- The paper covering on the outside of a paperback. Also see the entry for pictorial wraps, color illustrated coverings for...