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Drawing-room Amusements And Evening Party Entertainments
by Hoffmann, Professor; Hoffmann, Professor
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Northampton, Massachusetts, United States
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About This Item
George Routledge and Sons. Good. 1879. First Edition. Hardcover. Good hardcover, not issued with a dust jacket. Important book by Professor Louis Hoffmann, whom Houdini described as "the Brightest Star in the Firmament of Magical Literature". Red cloth with gllt to spine xii + 504 pages illustrated and 24 pages of publishers ads. Circa 1880. Reasonably bright covers, moderate shelf wear, previous owner name on endpaper, mildly shaken. A clear mylar cover has been added to protect the covers. ; Black and white illustrations; 5 x 8; 504 pages .
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- Bookseller
- UPRIGHTS
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 13125
- Title
- Drawing-room Amusements And Evening Party Entertainments
- Author
- Hoffmann, Professor; Hoffmann, Professor
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- George Routledge and Sons
- Date Published
- 1879
- Bookseller catalogs
- Magic;
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About the Seller
UPRIGHTS
Biblio member since 2006
Northampton, Massachusetts
About UPRIGHTS
Fine books on Art, Antiques, Crafts etc.
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- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- 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....
- Cloth
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- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Shaken
- A hardcover in which the text block is loose, but still attached to the binding.