A Primer Of Book Collecting
by Winterich, John T. and David A. Randall
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Deep River, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
New York: Bell Publishing Company, (1966). Third Revised Edition. First Printing Very good+ in red paper covered boards with black text on the spine. A small octavo of 8 by 5 3/8 inches with the spine slightly cocked. In a very good+, unclipped dust jacket with small chips from the corners of the spine area and nicks to the fore corners of the front panel over the tips of the boards. 228 of text including an index. Illustrated with facsimile images of title pages.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Town's End Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- TB31701
- Title
- A Primer Of Book Collecting
- Author
- Winterich, John T. and David A. Randall
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- Third Revised Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Bell Publishing Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- (1966)
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About the Seller
Town's End Books
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Deep River, Connecticut
About Town's End Books
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Glossary
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- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Facsimile
- An exact copy of an original work. In books, it refers to a copy or reproduction, as accurate as possible, of an original...
- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
- 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...