Thanks for checking out our little store! This one's for the vintage textbook collectors, math teachers, and anyone who gets a kick out of mid-century schoolbooks with a little history tucked inside the covers.

This is "Algebra, Book One" by A. M. Welchons and W. R. Krickenberger, published by Ginn and Company. It's a substantial classic secondary-school algebra text running past 550 pages, taking the reader from basic literal numbers and equations all the way through quadratics and even a numerical trigonometry appendix with tables of natural functions. The teal cloth cover with its embossed "x" pattern and the "Book One" script on the spine give it that unmistakable old-schoolhouse look, and the front pastedown carries a little bit of provenance too, with several generations of student signatures and dates penciled and inked inside the cover.

Details:

• Title: Algebra, Book One
• Author: A. M. Welchons and W. R. Krickenberger
• Publisher: Ginn and Company, copyright 1953 (with earlier 1949 copyright also noted on the copyright page)
• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Condition: Used, well-loved condition. The teal cloth cover shows notable wear at the spine ends and corners, with fraying cloth and some exposed board underneath. Page edges and the front and rear endpapers show foxing and old staining/tide lines. The front free endpaper has several ownership signatures and a date written in ink and pencil, and there is a name penciled onto the fore-edge of the text block. On the pages we saw, the interior text is clean and legible with just a few light pencil circles around exercise numbers here and there. There may be some notes or markings that we missed. We try to look through everything, but some items only have a handful of small notes that are easy to miss.

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