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A Bookhunter's Holiday; Adventures with Books and Manuscripts
by Rosenbach, A.S.W
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very good -/good
- Seller
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Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1936. First Edition. Very good -/good. Cream colored cloth, front and spine have a red inset with gilt lettering. Cover soiled, foxing to prelims, and rear endpages. Dust jacket has large open tear on back and chipping all along the edges. First copyright date is 1929. Several photos and other illustrations throughout. A memoir of a noted bookseller. Rare in dust jacket. 259 pp. First Edition.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Toadlily Books, ABAA/ILAB
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 948
- Title
- A Bookhunter's Holiday; Adventures with Books and Manuscripts
- Author
- Rosenbach, A.S.W
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good -
- Jacket Condition
- good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1936
- Keywords
- Women booksellers, Book collecting, Almanacs, Mysteries, Presidential Libraries, Munchausen
Terms of Sale
Toadlily Books, ABAA/ILAB
30 day return guarantee, with full refund.
About the Seller
Toadlily Books, ABAA/ILAB
Biblio member since 2020
Atlanta, Georgia
About Toadlily Books, ABAA/ILAB
Member of ABAA/ILAB. On-line sales and the occasional book fair.
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- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- 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....
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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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