Bibliographical Studies of Seven Authors of Crawfordsville, Indiana: Lew and Susan Wallace, Maurice and Will Thompson, Mary Hannah and Caroline Virginia Krout, and Meredith Nicholson
by Russo, Dorothy Ritter and Thelma Lois Sullivan
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About This Item
Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Society, 1952. xv, 486p., illustrated with numerous sepia facsimiles of items & mss, done gravure, no less, beautiful presswork by R. R. Donnelley's Lakeside Press. Rubricated titlepage, hardbound in waxed grey buckram boards with pale red buckram backstrip gilt-titled. Untrimmed edges, top edge gilded, headbands at top and tail, the works! The bibliographical apparatus looks very professional and is beautiful composed. A handsome copy (a little over the top, given subjects' obscurity) in handsome condition. Indiana Hubris.
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- Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 242126
- Title
- Bibliographical Studies of Seven Authors of Crawfordsville, Indiana: Lew and Susan Wallace, Maurice and Will Thompson, Mary Hannah and Caroline Virginia Krout, and Meredith Nicholson
- Author
- Russo, Dorothy Ritter and Thelma Lois Sullivan
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Indiana Historical Society
- Place of Publication
- Indianapolis
- Date Published
- 1952
- Bookseller catalogs
- Indiana; Books about books; Bibliography; Urban history;
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- Buckram
- A plain weave fabric normally made from cotton or linen which is stiffened with starch or other chemicals to cover the book...
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- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- 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...