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Printing for Pleasure
by Ryder, John
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/very good
- Seller
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Newark, New Jersey, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Charles T. Branford Company, [1955]. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. 12mo. 142, [2] pp. Bound in full black cloth, title in gilt on spine, with U.S. publisher's imprint on a paste-on label on title page, in illustrated dust jacket. Black and white frontispiece portrait of Gutenberg. Color and black and white illustrations throughout. Very Good, minor age-toning to pages, light soiling to front endpapers, spine slightly cocked, in price-clipped dust jacket, with overall minor wear, age-toning, and soiling.
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- Bookseller
- Garnet Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 003027
- Title
- Printing for Pleasure
- Author
- Ryder, John
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Charles T. Branford Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- [1955]
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- 12mo
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- Gilt
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- Cloth
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- Cocked
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- Title Page
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- Jacket
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