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Benjamin FranklIN'S LIBRARY (PRINTED, 1936, AS "THE FIRST AMERICAN LIBRARY"): A SHORT ACCOUNT OF THE LIBRARY COMPANY OF PHILADELPHIA, 1731-1931
by Gray, Austin K
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- Seller
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Gloucester City, New Jersey, United States
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About This Item
New York: Macmillan Company, 1937. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Reprint. Octavo. xi, 80pp. Illustrated with facsimiles. Yellow spotting on spine, else very good in a good only yellowed dustwrapper with edges chipped.
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- Bookseller
- Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 357910
- Title
- Benjamin FranklIN'S LIBRARY (PRINTED, 1936, AS "THE FIRST AMERICAN LIBRARY"): A SHORT ACCOUNT OF THE LIBRARY COMPANY OF PHILADELPHIA, 1731-1931
- Author
- Gray, Austin K
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Macmillan Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1937
- Keywords
- Biography, History, Americana, BookCollecting
- Bookseller catalogs
- Americana; Book Collecting;
Terms of Sale
Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
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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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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- 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....
- Dustwrapper
- Also known as book jacket, dust cover, or dust wrapper, a dust jacket is a protective and decorative cover for a book that is...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
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