[Rarebooks] FS: 1st year Amer. Heritage

[Gerard Gormley]

Editors of American Heritage~.  THE FIRST YEAR OF AMERICAN
HERITAGE: The complete contents of the first six issues of "the
magazine of history in book form"~.  NY NY, USA: American
Heritage Publishing, 1958.  Keywords: with dust jacket, very hard
to find -- Limited Edition (only 30,000 copies of this one-volume
collection were printed) --  Americana -- History -- Illustrated
-- Illustrated (photos) -- Travel-Description-Exploration --
Volume VI, Numbers 1-6, December 1954 - October 1955 -- hundreds
of color and black/white illustrations & photographs -- 1 index
in back covers all 6 issues -- 6 covers printed in full color on
heavy paper rather than usual hard binding -- English language.
Presumed First (Am. Heritage does not designate).  Hardcover.
[Dust jacket present, price intact.    About 720 pages + Index,
color & black/white photographs, art reproductions &
illustrations throughout.  Binding height: 11-1/4".  Full cloth,
blue cloth on boards, white on spine, gold-stamping.  Book Very
Good to Near Fine: moderate bumping & rubbing to fore-corners,
lightest bumping to spine-bottom.  Binding strong & tight,
insides Fine.  Dust jacket Good to Very Good: heavy wrinkle &
rubbing to fore-corners, 3 closed tears (1/2" to top front & top
front fore-corner, 3/4" to bottom back & inside back-flap), 1/2"
chip to spine-top, 1/4" chip to spine-bottom, inside back-flap
creased, lightest rubbing over cloth boundaries.  Dust jacket
pluses: no other rubbing, scratching or scoring to front, spine
or back -- looks bright & beautiful on book.  [Shipping weight: 6
lb.].  [Digital JPEG image available on request].  2086~.
US$60-


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