Library Bookselling: A History and Handbook of Current Practice.
by Abbott, Jacob
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- Hardcover
- Condition
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- Seller
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San Francisco, California, United States
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About This Item
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1956. . 12mo. 160 pp. Green cloth-covered boards with gold gilt spine. Very good. Black and white frontispiece engraving. Includes additional black and white gravures. Part of Harper’s Story Books series. Reprinted by the Shoe String Press with an Epistle Dedicatory by Jacob Blanck. From the collection of the late Frederick Ruffner, Jr., founder of Gale Research, Detroit.
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- Bookseller
- Alan Wofsy Fine Arts (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 19-9547
- Title
- Library Bookselling: A History and Handbook of Current Practice.
- Author
- Abbott, Jacob
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- New York: Harper & Brothers, 1956.
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Alan Wofsy Fine Arts
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Alan Wofsy Fine Arts
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San Francisco, California
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- 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...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- 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....