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The Key To The Golden Islands: With a Foreword by Percy MacKaye. Signed, limited edition.
by Corse, Carita Doggett
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Stone Mountain, Georgia, United States
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About This Item
Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1931. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Octavo. xvi, 165 pages. Illustrated by Louise Turck. Red cloth covered boards with gilt and red embossed illustration block on front cover. Vellum spine with gilt stamped title. Illustrated end sheets. Top edge gilt. Untrimmed foredge. Light shelf and edge wear to the red cloth binding. A few tiny pin holes on the vellum front outer joint. Limited to 212 copies and printed on Hadrian vellum paper. This copy signed by the author and numbered 176.
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- Bookseller
- Americana Books ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 28858
- Title
- The Key To The Golden Islands
- Author
- Corse, Carita Doggett
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- The University of North Carolina Press
- Place of Publication
- Chapel Hill
- Date Published
- 1931
- Keywords
- Florida
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Stone Mountain, Georgia
About Americana Books ABAA
Americana Books in business since 1993 specializing in American History and Americana. Member ABAA ( Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America)
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- 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....
- Vellum
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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...
- 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...
- 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...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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