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In Quest of the Perfect Book: Reminiscences & Reflections of a Bookman
by Orcutt, William Dana
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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East Granby, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1926. Stated first printing of the trade edition, September 1926. Includes personalized inscription to a John C. Hobbs signed by the author on the half-title. Brown cloth lettered and decorated in gilt, top edge gilt, other edges trimmed, color frontis, other plates in black and white, 317 pages, dustjacket. Very good condition with good hinges, firm text block, clean pages, no other names or markings. The mylar protected dustajcket is not priceclipped [5.00] and is also very good with some very modest chipping to the corners and spine ends. Important work focusing on book design by the former lead book designer for Plimpton Press. Orcutt's goal in his professional life was to produce high quality, well-designed books at an affordable price. This book focuses on some of the steps he took - in both education and experience - to reach this goal. It also includes some anecdotes about some of the authors and book aficianados he met along the way.. Inscribed by The Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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- Bookseller
- Resource Books, LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 045368
- Title
- In Quest of the Perfect Book: Reminiscences & Reflections of a Bookman
- Author
- Orcutt, William Dana
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Little, Brown & Co.
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1926
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Keywords
- BOOK DESIGN PUBLISHING PRINTING
- Bookseller catalogs
- Books, Paper, Printing, Publishing, Typography;
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About the Seller
Resource Books, LLC
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East Granby, Connecticut
About Resource Books, LLC
Resource Books, LLC deals in antiquarian and out-of-print books in a wide variety of subject matter, mainly non-fiction.
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- Cloth
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- Edges
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- First Edition
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- 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....
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Inscribed
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