EARLY AMERICAN BOOKS & PRINTING
by Winterich, John T. (Author)
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
-
Rockville, Maryland, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1935. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. Fair Hardcover w/ Fair Dustjacket; tan spine with black lettering; DJ has considerable discoloration, wear to folds, creasing and tears out of top edge, smaller torn areas in bottom edge, and is in protective cover; boards have shelf wear to top and bottom edges, front cover has discoloration to lower half; back cover has similar as well as some other surface marks; some discoloration to inside front gutter; binding tight; text block has some marks on top edge but otherwise clean; 253 pp. 1347576. FP New Rockville Stock.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Second Story Books, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1347576
- Title
- EARLY AMERICAN BOOKS & PRINTING
- Author
- Winterich, John T. (Author)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1935
Terms of Sale
Second Story Books, ABAA
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About the Seller
Second Story Books, ABAA
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Rockville, Maryland
About Second Story Books, ABAA
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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....
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....