Carving His Own Destiny: The Story of Albin Polasek
by Sherwood, Ruth
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Seller
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Chicago, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
Chicago: Ralph Fletcher Seymour, Publisher. Used - Very Good. 1954. First Edition. hardcover. Red cloth with gilt stamped lettering and decoration. Tall octavo. 466 pp. Illustrated. Marbled endpapers. Presentation copy, with artist's inscription to front flyleaf. Laid in: photograph of artist and relative of previous owner. Some shelf wear to boards, heavy chipping to head and tail of spine. Corners slightly bumped. Previous owner's inscriptions to front flyleaves. Contents very sound. Very Good. (Subject: Artist Biography).
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- Bookseller
- Powell's Bookstores Chicago (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- C64216
- Title
- Carving His Own Destiny: The Story of Albin Polasek
- Author
- Sherwood, Ruth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Chicago: Ralph Fletcher Seymour, Publisher
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Powell's Bookstores Chicago
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- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Octavo
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- Spine
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- Cloth
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- 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...
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- 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...
- First Edition
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