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The Journals of Hugh Gaine Printer
by Ford, Paul Leicester (Ed)
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket (as Issued?)
- Seller
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Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1902. Two volumes complete - Volume One - Biography and Bibliography - [8], ix-xi, [2], 3-239pp, [1] and Volume Two - Journals and Letters - [4], v-xi, [3], 3-234pp, [2]. Original half Japon vellum and boards, paper title label to spine. Spines browned and rubbed, scrape to head of volume two catching label with small amount of loss, corners bumped, boards lightly soiled. Internally quite bright and clean. Folding facsimile letter frontispiece to volume two. This is one of thirty copies on Imperial Japan paper (with a further three hundred and fifty copies bound in cloth and printed on deckle edged paper). Gaine was a printer and bookseller, born in Belfast, who arrived at New York in 1745. BAL 6231. First Edition. Hardback. Good/No Jacket (as Issued?). 4to. Limited Edition.
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- Bookseller
- Zetetic Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 003764
- Title
- The Journals of Hugh Gaine Printer
- Author
- Ford, Paul Leicester (Ed)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket (as Issued?)
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Dodd, Mead & Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1902
- Size
- 4to
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Noisbn, Hugh Gaine, US Printing, Belfast, Bookselling, Booksellers, America
- Bookseller catalogs
- Bibliography and Reference;
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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