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Copper Camp Stories of the World's Greatest Mining Town Butte, Montana
by WPA
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Deep River, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
New York: Hastings House, 1943. First Edition. Near fine in light red cloth covered boards with copper colored text stamping on spine with light wear and rubbing to the cloth at the head and heel of the spine. In a good, unclipped dust jacket with up to 1/2" deep chipping at the ends of the spine area, the fold from the spine area to the rear panel is worn through in most areas and there are chips over the fore edges of the folds to the panels over the tips of the boards. 308 pages with an index. "The lusty story of Butte, Montana the richest Hill on the Earth" Compiled by workers of the Writers' Program of the Work Projects Administration in the State of Montana. Illustrated with an engraved frontispiece and plates from black and white photographs.
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- Bookseller
- Town's End Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- TB30066
- Title
- Copper Camp Stories of the World's Greatest Mining Town Butte, Montana
- Author
- WPA
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Hastings House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1943
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Town's End Books
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Deep River, Connecticut
About Town's End Books
We purchase and sell only collectible first editions in a number of fields all focused on Americana. We are primarily mail order sellers; however, we are open by appointment and welcome visits from customers.
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- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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....
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Heel
- The lower most portion of the spine when the book is standing vertically.
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- Fine
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