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INCUNABULUM INCUNABULORUM: THE GUTENBERG BIBLE ON VELLUM IN THE VOLLBEHR COLLECTION
by EMERSON, EDWIN
- Used
- Paperback
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Edge Worn and Spotted./No Dust Jacket
- Seller
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Prairie Village, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
New York: Tudor Press, 1928. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR to Adolph O. Knoll on front free endpaper snd dated "New York, Aug. 25, 1933". together with an autograph note from the author to Adolph Knoll in envelope with 1 1/2 cent Harding US postal stamp.Mr Knoll (1894-1972) was the former editor of the "Police Journal" and a well-known rare book dealer in Chicago. Some chipping of free edges, spine extremities. Frontispiece portrait of Gutenberg with 10 additional illustrations. Quite clean through the text material. 55pp.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Cream Printed Wrappers. Edge Worn and Spotted./No Dust Jacket. Thin Octavo.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Glenn Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 014532
- Title
- INCUNABULUM INCUNABULORUM: THE GUTENBERG BIBLE ON VELLUM IN THE VOLLBEHR COLLECTION
- Author
- EMERSON, EDWIN
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Edge Worn and Spotted.
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Tudor Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1928
- Size
- Thin Octavo
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Autograph, Religion, Gutenberg, Association Copy
Terms of Sale
Glenn Books
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About the Seller
Glenn Books
Biblio member since 2005
Prairie Village, Kansas
About Glenn Books
We are an antiquarian bookshop established in 1933. We are members of ABAA and ILAB.
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- Edges
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- First Edition
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- Chipping
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- Spine
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- Inscribed
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- Wrappers
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- Jacket
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