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Authors and the Book Trade
by Swinnerton, Frank
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Staten Island, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1932. Hardcover, dark blue cloth with spine lettered and decorated in black. 148pp., Index. First American edition. An accomplished author and reviewer by the 1930's, Swinnerton has collected several of his articles from 'The Fortnightly Review' and 'The London Mercury' and has added two wriiten especially for this book, all concerned with the vagaries of the publishing trade. Selections include 'Why are Books Published', Literary Agents', 'The Size abd Price of Books' and 'Booksellers', among others. No previous ownership marks. Edges of book block foxed, covers and inteirior clean and unmarked. Good.. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
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- Bookseller
- Great Expectations Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 009449
- Title
- Authors and the Book Trade
- Author
- Swinnerton, Frank
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1932
- Keywords
- Books About Bookspublishing
- Bookseller catalogs
- Books About Books;
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
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About the Seller
Great Expectations Rare Books
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Staten Island, New York
About Great Expectations Rare Books
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Edges
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- First Edition
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Cloth
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