Andrew Carnegie
by HARLOW, Alvin F
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
-
Galena, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
Chicago: Kingston House, 1959. Hardcover. 8vo. Pale blue cloth wilt black lettering and dark blue buckram, pictorial dust jacket. 182pp. Near fine/very good. Faint jacket edgewear; bookplate on front flyleaf. A tight and attractive third printing of this reprint of the 1953 juvenile biography of the Scottish-born industrialist.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 38642
- Title
- Andrew Carnegie
- Author
- HARLOW, Alvin F
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Kingston House
- Place of Publication
- Chicago
- Date Published
- 1959
- Bookseller catalogs
- Books; Biography;
Terms of Sale
Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA
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About the Seller
Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA
Biblio member since 2005
Galena, Illinois
About Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA
Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts has been serving book lovers, collectors and institutions since 1991. Our inventory of quality out-of-print books spans 50 subjects, while the extensive autograph holdings have a decidedly historical bent, reflecting personages from every field of human endeavor.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Buckram
- A plain weave fabric normally made from cotton or linen which is stiffened with starch or other chemicals to cover the book...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...