STOCKTONIANA: An Essay / Prefatory Note / The Lady, or the Tiger?
by Pforzheimer, Walter L. / William Lyon Phelps / Frank R. Stockton
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good with no dust jacket
- Seller
-
BERKELEY, California, United States
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About This Item
Purchase: Privately Printed. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1936. Hardcover. Blue cloth over boards, tan cloth spine with pastedown paper spine label, portrait of Stockton, drawings accompany the last part. One of 145 copies produced for the author by the Pynson Printers, New York. Three items are laid in: A seasons greetings card for 1936 bearing the full signature of author Pforzheimer, an errata slip, and STOCKTONIANA Number Two. The latter item is a single folded sheet having four printed leaves and discussing Stockton's wood engravings. ; 6-1/2" 10"; 42 pp; Spine and spine label toned, wear at top/bottom of spine and at corners, two spots to portrait edges that have beld to adjacent leaves, a few additional fingerprints, no writing. Spots of faint soiling to laid in items. .
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- Bookseller
- Andrew Langer, Bookseller
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 4903
- Title
- STOCKTONIANA: An Essay / Prefatory Note / The Lady, or the Tiger?
- Author
- Pforzheimer, Walter L. / William Lyon Phelps / Frank R. Stockton
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good with no dust jacket
- Publisher
- Privately Printed
- Place of Publication
- Purchase
- Date Published
- 1936
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fine Press;
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Andrew Langer, Bookseller
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BERKELEY, California
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- Cloth
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- Errata
- Errata: aka Errata Slip A piece of paper either laid in to the book correcting errors found in the printed text after being...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Leaves
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