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Art-Nonsense and Other Essays
by Gill, Eric
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Arrowsic, Maine, United States
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About This Item
London: Cassell & Co., Ltd. & Francis Walterson, 1929. Sm 4to (10.25" x 7"), red cloth over boards, gilt title/author at spine, deckled fore- and tail edges, t.e.g. X, 324 pp., colophon. Bookplate of Alfred Knopf, designed by Rockwell Kent in 1928, on front paste-down. CONDITION: Very good, spine moderately sunned, light wear to extremities. This is number 55 of 100 copies printed on large paper. Signed and numbered by Gill on the colophon.
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- Bookseller
- James Arsenault & Company
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 8118
- Title
- Art-Nonsense and Other Essays
- Author
- Gill, Eric
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- London: Cassell & Co., Ltd. & Francis Walterson, 1929
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James Arsenault & Company
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Arrowsic, Maine
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Glossary
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- Colophon
- The colophon contains information about a book's publisher, the typesetting, printer, and possibly even includes a printer's...
- 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...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
- 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...
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