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American Country: A Style and Source Book
by EMMERLING, Mary Ellisor
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0517538466
- ISBN 13
- 9780517538463
- Seller
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Gloucester City, New Jersey, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Clarkson N. Potter, Inc, 1980. Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. First edition. Small quarto. 292pp. Red cloth boards. Illustrated from black and white and color photographs. Very good with a cocked spine, lightly faded board edges and bumped corners in an about near fine spine faded dustwrapper with some color faded from panels, rubbing and edge wear.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 369515
- Title
- American Country: A Style and Source Book
- Author
- EMMERLING, Mary Ellisor
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0517538466
- ISBN 13
- 9780517538463
- Publisher
- Clarkson N. Potter, Inc
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1980
- Keywords
- Art/Illustration
Terms of Sale
Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
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About the Seller
Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
Biblio member since 2005
Gloucester City, New Jersey
About Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc., founded in 1985, specializes in first editions of 20th Century American and English fiction. Our inventory of over 75,000 first editions includes: African-American literature & history, Mysteries, Detective Fiction, Drama, Books into Film and Sports books. We routinely issue extensively illustrated color catalogs, available by subscription. We are members of the Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America (ABAA)and the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers (ILAB). Tom Congalton, founder of Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc., actively promotes the ethics and standards of these professional organizations and served as President of the ABAA from 2000 to 2002.
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- Spine
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- Dustwrapper
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- Edges
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- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
- Cloth
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- Fine
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- First Edition
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- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Quarto
- The term quarto is used to describe a page or book size. A printed sheet is made with four pages of text on each side, and the...
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