Abroad with Jane.
by MERRYMOUNT PRESS. UPDIKE, D.B. MARTIN, Edward Sandford
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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LONDON, Greater London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Boston: Privately Printed , 1918. Portrait frontispiece of Jane (after Rembrandt). This edition privately printed by Updike at the Merrymount Press. First published by Charles Scribner’s Sons in 1918. 110 x 175 mms. 16mo., original black cloth backed marbled paper boards, gilt lettering to spine. Mild wear to corners, light rubbing to boards. Small bookseller label to rear pastedown.||American journalist Martin’s sprightly travel book chronicling his journey to England and Europe.|Smith 487.
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- Bookseller
- SOPHIE SCHNEIDEMAN RARE BOOKS (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 8170
- Title
- Abroad with Jane.
- Author
- MERRYMOUNT PRESS. UPDIKE, D.B. MARTIN, Edward Sandford
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Privately Printed
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1918
- Keywords
- Merrymount Press;Updike Book,Private Press, Printing & Typography
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About the Seller
SOPHIE SCHNEIDEMAN RARE BOOKS
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- Marbled Paper
- Decorative colored paper that imitates marble with a veined, mottled, or swirling pattern. Commonly used as the end papers or...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...