ADVENTURES IN AMERICANA: Recollections of Forty Years Collecting Books, Furniture, China, Guns and Glass
by Skiff, Frederick Woodward
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Good+/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
-
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
Portland, OR: Metropolitan Press, 1935. 368 pp. Original olive green paper covered boards w/ paper title label on brown cloth spine. Faint sunning to edges; light rubbing to hinges and ends of spine. Covers slightly cocked; inner hinges cracked. Small note written by previous owner on front blank endpaper. SIGNED BY FREDERICK WOODWARD SKIFF. #710 of 800 copies. Illust. w/ b/w drawings.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good+/No Dust Jacket. Illus. by Clark Moor Will and Eugene De Forest Braman. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Limited Edition.
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- Bookseller
- Shoemaker Booksellers
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 15495
- Title
- ADVENTURES IN AMERICANA: Recollections of Forty Years Collecting Books, Furniture, China, Guns and Glass
- Author
- Skiff, Frederick Woodward
- Illustrator
- Clark Moor Will and Eugene De Forest Braman
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Metropolitan Press
- Place of Publication
- Portland, OR
- Date Published
- 1935
- Keywords
- DECORATIVE ARTS BOOKS AMERICAN LITERATURE LITERARY WORKS FIRST EDITIONS BIBLIOGRAPHY FURNITURE CHINA GUNS WEAPONS GLASS ANTIQUES HOBBY HOBBIES COLLECTIBLES COLLECTIONS COLLECTING COLLECTORS AMERICAN HISTORY UNITED STATES AMERICA AMERICANA NONFICTION GENER
- Bookseller catalogs
- Decorative Art; Guns; Weapons; Hobbies;
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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About the Seller
Shoemaker Booksellers
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Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
About Shoemaker Booksellers
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- First Edition
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- Jacket
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- Cloth
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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....
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
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