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Bibliotheca Americana: A Dictionary of Books Relating to America. Volumes 1-20, part 1 (to parts CXVI) signed with original signed receipt from Sabin
by Joseph Sabin
- Used
- hardcover
- Signed
- First
- Condition
- Very good +
- Seller
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Gridley, California
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About This Item
New York: Joseph Sabin, 1892. First Edition, First Printing. Three quarter leather. Very good +. A very good plus first edition, small paper copy. One of 525 copies issued. These are the works published in Sabin's lifetime. Signed by Joseph Sabin with original signed receipt from Sabin. Mixed set: small paper copy and stiff wraps on vol 20, all bound into three quarter leather with marbled boards and gilt accents.Bound by The University of Chicago Press. Moderate wear to crown, foot, and corners on various volumes. Top edge gilt. One volume has bent pages from poor shipping practice (book edges pressed into one another). Marbled endpapers. On laid paper.Text is clean and bright. Vols. 1-19, "Edition, 525 copies, 8vo ... and 110 copies on large paper." Publication was suspended from 1892 to 1927, when it was resumed with the parts numbered continuously with the last issued in 1892 (Suspended with pt. CXV/CXVI (v. 20, pt. 1/2) 1892; ) This set shipped at actual cost.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Uncommon Works, IOBA, ABAA, ILAB
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- Bookseller Inventory #
- 1078
- Title
- Bibliotheca Americana: A Dictionary of Books Relating to America. Volumes 1-20, part 1 (to parts CXVI) signed with original signed receipt from Sabin
- Author
- Joseph Sabin
- Format/binding
- Three quarter leather
- Book condition
- Used - Very good +
- Quantity available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Joseph Sabin
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date published
- 1892
- Keywords
- bibliography, americana, boks about books, sabin,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Americana;
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