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Add this copy of Vassar College and Its Founder to cart. $41.95, good condition, Sold by Earthlight Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Walla Walla, WA, UNITED STATES, published 1867 by C. A. Alvord Printer.
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Good. Size: 0x0x0; Signed by Professor Raird "with compliments of the Executive Committee of Vassar College." Hinges cracked at endpapers, Ex-library with markings. Good, hardcover binding with no dust jacket. Light to moderate wear to corners and edges, may contain markings to text, previous owner's signature, remainder mark, sticker/residue, or other minor aesthetic flaws. Please inquire for additional details. Earthlight Book is a family owned and operated, Independent Bookstore located in Walla Walla, Washington and serving book lovers around the world since 1973.
Add this copy of Vassar College and Its Founder to cart. $82.00, very good condition, Sold by Kurt Gippert Bookseller (ABAA) rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Chicago, IL, UNITED STATES, published 1867 by C. A. Alvord Printer.
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Very good-condition. Book. Octavo (8vo). 175 pages of text. Original green hardcover cloth binding has moderate rubbing to the extremities, mainly affecting the spine. Illustrated with an engraved frontisportrait of Matthew Vassar, and numerous in-text vignettes. Affected by moderate foxing throughout the text. Ex-libris, with institutional discard label on the inside front cover, a remnant of a check-out label on the rear endpaper, four small numerals on a page of preface, and minor call number removal evidence at the bottom of the spine. First edition, with the ornate gilt stamped "V" on the front cover bright, crisp and attractive.
Add this copy of Vassar College and Its Founder to cart. $82.00, good condition, Sold by Glover's Bookery, ABAA rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Lexington, KY, UNITED STATES, published 1867 by NY: C. A. Alvord Printer, 1867.
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Very Good- 4to 175 pp; First Edition. Book has no names, old price marked out with pink marker fly leaf corner, pages unmarked and lightly age toned, front hinge has been repaired, corners lightly bumped, tissue protecting frontis portrait is intact, pages with little to no foxing. Bound in green embossed pebbled fabric with embellished floral "VC" on the front cover and gilt spine, spine gilt faded but still readable, foredges gilt all around. A nice, clean, tight and attractive book.
Add this copy of Vassar College and Its Founder to cart. $112.00, good condition, Sold by Shoemaker Booksellers rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Gettysburg, PA, UNITED STATES, published 1867 by C. A. Alvord Printer.
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Near Very Good. No Dust Jacket. 4to-over 9¾"-12" tall. 175 pp. Original green cloth covers w/ gilt title on spine. Gilt decoration on front cover and blind stamp on rear cover. Beveled edges. All edges gilt. Light wear to spine ends. Corners bumped. Front hinge starting. Illust. w/ b/w illustrations. Contents nice.
Add this copy of Vassar College and Its Founder to cart. $282.00, good condition, Sold by Antic Hay Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Asbury Park, NJ, UNITED STATES, published 1867.
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LOSSING, Benson J. VASSAR COLLEGE AND ITS FOUNDER. NY: C.A. Alvord, 1867. Illustrated. Small quarto, embossed green cloth, gilt title on spine; 175 pages. First Edition. Lossing was a charter trustee of Vassar College. Signed presentation from Lossing on the front endpaper: "Miss Van [Amaning? ], with the compliments of Benson J. Lossing. Dec. 19, 1878." With the ink name of "Louise McVey" penned beneath the presentation. Lacks the frontispiece of Matthew Vassar (included in the List of Illustrations) but, after checking a number of different copies, it appears that this portrait was left out in all copies published. Bookplate of Fanny Lee Weyant on the front pastedown. Very Good (little wear to spine tips & more to lower corners of covers; several small spots of dampstaining to upper corner of rear cover with a little transferred to the upper corner of the rear endpaper; contents clean & tight). An uncommon title and difficult to locate a signed copy! $275.00.
