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GEORGE PALMER PUTNAM A MEMOIR TOGETHER WITH A RECORD OF THE EARLIER YEARS OF THE PUBLISHING HOUSE FOUNDED BY HIM
by Putnam, George Haven
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good+
- Seller
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Fairfield, New Jersey, United States
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About This Item
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. Very Good+. 1912. Second Edition. Hardcover. Clean brown 3/4 leather over brown cloth. Spine has raised bands with gilt decorated panels, including title. Text tight, clean & intact. Marbled endpaper. Portrait frontispiece. Only endpaper lightly foxed. 1st edition was printed for private circulation in 1903. Publishing business; Early years of the war; Draft Riots. Books on Books ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 476 pages .
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- Bookseller
- Nick Bikoff, Bookseller
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 14762
- Title
- GEORGE PALMER PUTNAM A MEMOIR TOGETHER WITH A RECORD OF THE EARLIER YEARS OF THE PUBLISHING HOUSE FOUNDED BY HIM
- Author
- Putnam, George Haven
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Edition
- Second Edition
- Publisher
- G. P. Putnam's Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1912
- Keywords
- Books On Books
- Bookseller catalogs
- Business; Books On Books;
Terms of Sale
Nick Bikoff, Bookseller
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About the Seller
Nick Bikoff, Bookseller
Biblio member since 2005
Fairfield, New Jersey
About Nick Bikoff, Bookseller
Nick Bikoff and his wife Fran have been buying and selling quality books and ephemera since 1989 when they attended the "Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar" at the University of Denver. They offer a broad based selection of used, rare, and out-of-print stock ranging from the sixteenth to the twentieth century.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- G
- Good describes the average used and worn book that has all pages or leaves present. Any defects must be noted. (as defined by AB...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- 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...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Raised Band(s)
- Raised bands refer to the ridges that protrude slightly from the spine on leather bound books. The bands are created in the...
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