Beautiful decorated American trade binding. Clean blue ribbed cloth boards with gold, black an green decoration on cover and spine, gold lettering on cover and spine. No fraying, fading or wear-through; tiny dent on fore-edge of front board (no break to cloth). Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound. Pages and edges are clean with clean green endpapers; tasteful custom bookplate on back side of front free endpaper, small neat ink stamp of same owner at top right corner of blank fly leaf. Profusely illustrated in black and white and with full color plates. 757 pages with Index + Le... View More...
Philadelphia: John C. Winston, 1925. Near Fine/Very Good+. In original attractive dustjacket - very clean decorated green cloth boards with unchipped gold lettering on cover and spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight & square, pages and edges are clean. Clean endpapers; no names, writing or marks. Illustrated with black and white plates. 300 pp. Clean dustjacket (a little very faint foxing to spine) has color image of George Washington on front panel, a few tiny closed edge tears, tiny bit of wear to paper at corners and spine head. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. ... View More...
