Collecting American First Editions; Its Pitfalls and Its Pleasures [SIGNED]
by Curle, Richard
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- g
- Seller
-
Santa Monica, California, United States
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About This Item
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1930. Limited ed. Hardcover. g. 8vo. xviii. 222pp. Blue cloth binding. Light wear to head and heel of spine. Top edge gilt. Slipcase with pastedown limitation notice affixe,corners bumped. .Fifty-one full page plates, some with separate tissue guards. Frontispiece. Pages untrimmed. One of 1250 numbered copies signed by the author. In slipcase with corners bumped, and some splitting along edges. Case has limited edition label affixed. Otherwise, book in good condition.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 8717
- Title
- Collecting American First Editions; Its Pitfalls and Its Pleasures [SIGNED]
- Author
- Curle, Richard
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - g
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Limited ed
- Publisher
- Bobbs-Merrill
- Place of Publication
- Indianapolis
- Date Published
- 1930
- Keywords
- book collecting, Collecting books, commentaries , American literature , Author signature, autograph, American poets, authors
Terms of Sale
Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller
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About the Seller
Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller
Biblio member since 2009
Santa Monica, California
About Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller
We offer a broad selection of rare, out-of-print and antiquarian books with an emphasis on photography, architecture, art, Judaica, Bibles, Weimar Germany and the Third Reich, modernism, Olympic Games, erotica and foreign-language works, especially German, Hebrew, Polish and Yiddish. We also provide appraisal, auction, consulting and rental services.
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- Heel
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- Top Edge Gilt
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- Cloth
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- 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....
- Edges
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