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Rumbin Galleries
by Tarkington, Booth
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Good +/very good
- Seller
-
Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc, 1937. First edition. Hardcover. Good +/very good. Ritchie Cooper. SIGNED by the author on a laid-in slip with a typed notation. 305pp. Octavo [20.5 cm] Beige cloth with gilt lettering on brown ink stamped panels on the spine and front cover, and horizontal gilt ruled designs on the spine. Publisher's black top stain. The boards are mildly soiled and stained, the extremities are bumped, and the underlying boards are exposed at the corners of the covers. The text block is just beginning to crack at the rear. In a moderately edge worn dust jacket, with a 3/4" closed tear in the paper at the foot of the spine. Illustrated by Ritchie Cooper. A novel of a lovable art and antique dealer and his musings on collectors and collecting. With a tipped-in typed slip signed by Tarkington, in which he addresses his unfortunate stage fright and his difficulty giving readings.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 48697
- Title
- Rumbin Galleries
- Author
- Tarkington, Booth
- Illustrator
- Ritchie Cooper
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good +
- Jacket Condition
- very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc
- Place of Publication
- Garden City
- Date Published
- 1937
- Keywords
- Booth Tarkington; signed; first edition; Ritchie Cooper
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA
Biblio member since 2006
Salt Lake City, Utah
About Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA
Ken Sanders Rare Books is a full service antiquarian bookshop in downtown Salt Lake City, Utah. We carry an ever-changing inventory of art, ephemera, maps, photography, and postcards in addition to a vast selection of used and rare books along with a few new books. We actively purchase and appraise books in all fields.
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- Laid-in
- "Laid In" indicates that there is something which is included with, but not attached to the book, such as a sheet of paper. The...
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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...
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