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Published by Inter Ocean Publishing Company, Chicago, 1889
Book First Edition
Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. First Edition. First edition. 8vo. Cloth. 174 p. + index. A compendium of answers to questions about history, biography, politics, religions, the arts, the sciences, nature, and more. Examples of articles include the Fugitive Slave Law, Cape Cod Ship Canal, the Hoosatonic Tunnel, storms, electricity, lead, electro-plating, artificial rainbows, Russia, France, Siberia, Rome, liquor manufacture and consumption, population, lepers, Fanny Kemble, and some 2,000 other topics. Very minor edgewear. Near fine.
Published by The Inter Ocean Publishing Company, 1881
Seller: Eat My Words Books, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.
First Edition
Leather. Condition: Good. Eleven annual volumes -- seven first edition, one second edition and three fifth edition. Nine volumes solidly bound, but a little weakness at front hinge of the other two. 1888 volume is missing front free endpage and pages are generally slightly fragile. Pages unmarked but a little tanned. Two volumes have "Scottish Rite" of Minneapolis stamps on front endpage. Black leather covers (some a tending towards brown) with same embossed design on each. Gold spine titles, but one is rubbed off, and another nearly so. Covers are generally worn at corners and spine tips.