Chicago: Charles H. Kerr, 1887. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 47 pages, 210 aphorisms, 12mo, brown cloth, gilt figures front cover, top edge gilt, beveled edges. Very good, spine ends/corner tips worn, paper lightly toned; no dust jacket. The contents are mostly made up of utterances of the members of a small south side Chicago club called The Three Threes, business and professional men who dined together and met every ninth night after the first night of each and every of the nine months following the ninth month of the year. More history of meetings on th first page.

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Bookseller: Abstract Books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 021027
Title: Aphorisms of the Three Threes
Author: Towne, Edward Owings
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good
Publisher: Charles H. Kerr
Place of Publication: Chicago
Date Published: 1887
Keywords: Aphorisms, Sayings,, Folklore, Chicago Cluibs

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Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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....
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...
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...
12mo: A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
Beveled: Beveled edges, or beveled boards, describe a technique of binding in which the edges of book boards have been cut into slanted...
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...
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...