Sleuthing in the Stacks
by Altrocchi, Rudolph
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good +/No Jacket
- Seller
-
Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Cambridge, MA: Harvard Univ Pr, 1944 Book. Very Good +. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. xiii, 279 pp, 7 chapters, notes, index. Lightly foxed endpapers, front lower corner lightly bumped. Clean, tight and strong binding with no underlining, highlighting or marginalia. Rough cut fore-edge. Cloth-backed boards. Red cloth-covered spine, gilt lettering and ruling, blue paper-covered boards, and paper label on front board..
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Details
- Bookseller
- West Side Book Shop, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001089
- Title
- Sleuthing in the Stacks
- Author
- Altrocchi, Rudolph
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good +
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Harvard Univ Pr
- Place of Publication
- Cambridge, MA
- Date Published
- 1944
- Keywords
- BOOKS & PUBLISHING LITERATURE READING LITERARY CRITICISM
- Bookseller catalogs
- LITERARY CRITICISM;
- Size
- 8vo
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About the Seller
West Side Book Shop, ABAA
Biblio member since 2006
Ann Arbor, Michigan
About West Side Book Shop, ABAA
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Glossary
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Marginalia
- Marginalia, in brief, are notes written in the margins, or beside the text of a book by a previous owner. This is very...
- 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....
- 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...
- 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...