Crimes Against Criminals [Signed]
by Ingersoll, Robert G
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- vg
- Seller
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Santa Monica, California, United States
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About This Item
East Aurora, NY: The Roycrofters, 1906. Limited edition. Hardcover. vg. 1/174. Octavo. 59, [3]pp. Original decorative glassine over half cloth and marbled paper covered boards. Gold lettering on spine. Top edge gilt. Book housed in its original paper covered box. Limitation page numbered and signed by editor Elbert Hubbard II. Decorative title page and initials. A poignant plea for the human treatment of offenders by the most famous agnostic and free-thinker of 19th-century America. One of 174 copies printed on Imperial Japanese vellum, of which this is No. 118. Text body set in Scotch Roman. Top lid of box missing. Tiny chipping on glassine. Glassine in overall good to good+, binding and interior in fine condition.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 34182
- Title
- Crimes Against Criminals [Signed]
- Author
- Ingersoll, Robert G
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - vg
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Limited edition
- Publisher
- The Roycrofters
- Place of Publication
- East Aurora, NY
- Date Published
- 1906
- Keywords
- Literature against death penalty, American free-thinkers, Essay, Limited edition, Signed, Reference
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.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Top Edge Gilt
- Top edge gilt refers to the practice of applying gold or a gold-like finish to the top of the text block (the edges the pages...
- Marbled Paper
- Decorative colored paper that imitates marble with a veined, mottled, or swirling pattern. Commonly used as the end papers or...
- Vellum
- Vellum is a sheet of specialty prepared skin of lamb, calf, or goat kid used for binding a book or for printing and writing. ...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- 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...
- 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....
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...