James J. Hill: A Great Life in Brief
by HOLBROOK, STEWART H
- Used
- good
- first
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
-
NORTH HAMPTON, New Hampshire, United States
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About This Item
1955. Good. HOLBROOK, STEWART H. James J. Hill: A Great Life in Brief. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1955, First edition. Great Lives in Brief Series. 12mo, pp.205 + vii. Index, bibliography. (Typography and binding designed by W. A. Dwiggins) Dj. Good/good, former owner's name embossed on ffep, A book review has been inserted between two front blank pages, with resulting foxed offset. Small portion of gilt lettering on spine has rubbed off. Dust jacket edgeworn at head and tail of spine.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Landscape Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 11120
- Title
- James J. Hill: A Great Life in Brief
- Author
- HOLBROOK, STEWART H
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Date Published
- 1955
- Keywords
- BIOGRAPHY, JAMES J. HILL, GREAT LIVES
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About the Seller
Landscape Books
Biblio member since 2007
NORTH HAMPTON, New Hampshire
About Landscape Books
Landscape Books specializes in books about garden history, garden design, landscape architecture, and city planning.
Glossary
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- 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...
- Offset
- A technique of printing where the inked image or text is ...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- 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....
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
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