The Purple and the Gold: The Story of Western Illinois University
by Hicken, Victor
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good in Good dust jacket/Good
- Seller
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Iowa City, Iowa, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Macomb, Illinois: Western Illinois University, 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good in Good dust jacket/Good. Clean and bright; no owners' marks; the full cloth hard cover shows some wear and short lines of white staining along the heel edges as well as some rubbing at corners, and the jacket has a small, closed tear at the top left front, some modest surface rubbing front and back, and a little shelfwear at the corners, otherwise excellent.
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Details
- Bookseller
- The Haunted Bookshop, LLC (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 065432
- Title
- The Purple and the Gold: The Story of Western Illinois University
- Author
- Hicken, Victor
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Good dust jacket
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Western Illinois University
- Place of Publication
- Macomb, Illinois
- Date Published
- 1970
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
The Haunted Bookshop, LLC
Biblio member since 2005
Iowa City, Iowa
About The Haunted Bookshop, LLC
The Haunted Bookshop is an open shop with over 40,000 quality used, out-of-print, and antiquarian titles for students, scholars, collectors, artists, families and children. The store has been in business for over 35 years, now in a historic home near downtown Iowa City. Our open hours are 10-8 daily.
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- 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.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
- 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...