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NY: Century. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1926. First Edition. Hardcover. Original orange cloth titled in black. Title label to front. Mild edge/corner wear, slight soil. Bookplate was removed from front pastedown. Few minor spots to pages. A bibliomystery story about a bookplate. Presumed first edition. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 375 pages .
The Colfax Book-Plate: A Mystery Story by Miller, Agnes - 1926
by Miller, Agnes
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The Colfax Book-Plate: A Mystery Story
by Miller, Agnes
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The Century Co, 1926. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. First edition. No jacket, a few light stains to front board, hinges starting, pencil note on front paste-down endpaper, ink name and date on front endpaper. 1926 Hard Cover. v, 375 pp. An early bibliomystery. Constance has worked her way out of the confines of the stenographers' pool at the busy downtown Manhattan book shop Darrow's to a place that better suits her intelligence and sophistication. She works in the rare book room - specifically a section devoted to prints and engravings. Bookplates make up a sizable portion of this collection. As the story opens Constance is in charge of cataloging a large group of books recently purchased from a judge who lived in Richmond, Virginia. Among those books is a limited edition printing of a book entitled Notes on Medical Statutes in the Virgina Code by W. Clarihew. This particular copy, number 239 of 300, has an unusual pictorial bookplate thought to be the work of Hugh Colfax, a Revolutionary War era engraver whose work primarily has only been seen in England. If the bookplate should prove to be genuine and for it to appear on a copy of an American published book would cause a sensation in the bookplate collecting world and probably the world of bibliophilia at large. The US 1st (and only) edition, by the way, sports a replica of the bookplate exactly as described in the story as a paste-down on the front board.
- Bookseller Yesterday's Muse Books (US)
- Format/Binding Hard Cover
- Book Condition Used - Good
- Jacket Condition No Jacket
- Quantity Available 1
- Edition First Edition
- Binding Hardcover
- Publisher The Century Co
- Date Published 1926
- Keywords FICTION MYSTERY BIBLIOMYSTERY BIBLIO BOOKS ON BOOKS
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The Colfax Book-Plate
by Miller, Agnes
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The Colfax Book-Plate
by Miller, Agnes
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NY: Century Co.; (1926). First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. First printing of this early bibliomystery involving bookplates, very good to very good- with no dust jacket. Orange cloth is worn at spine ends and lower corners, and there is a split in the cloth down the front gutter that is thin but noticeable.Bookplate pasted on front board is a little rubbed, but complete. No names or other markings in the book.
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The Colfax Book-Plate
by Agnes Miller
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The Century Company, 1926. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Fine copy In a Near-Fine Jacket.First Edition.Geat Vintage Rare Biblio-mystery . Only Book Written as a Biblio-mystery on Book Plates.Very Rare In Jacket..
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