Through the Lich-Gate: A Biography of The Little Church Around the Corner [#26/175 Grand Edition de Luxe, MULTIPLY SIGNED]
by Ross, Ishbel
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/N/A
- Seller
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Kutztown, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
New York: William Farquhar Payson, 1931. Book. Illus. by Ralph L. Boyer. Very Good. Vellum. Signed Associational. 1st Edition. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. SIGNED LIMITED. Original vellum boards, beveled edges., lettered and with front cover device in gilt, deckled text block edges with top edge in gilt, housed in custom clamshell box, 1/4 green leather lettered in gilt, dark green cloth. v,164 pp., w/ 16 illustrations from dry-points by Boyer. Vellum is typically somewhat dulled by age, with approx. 1" separation at upper front joint and 1/2" at lower. Firm binding. Some foxing to endpapers, light scattered internal foxing. Volume VG, box essentially Fine. No. 26 of the Grand Edition de Luxe, limited to 175 copies, vellum binding variant, autographed on first front blank by George Arliss, Otis Skinner, and Grant Mitchell and on adjacent blank by 12 additional officials of the church (rector, senior warden, junior warden, treasurer, clerk of the vestry, etc.)..
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- Bookseller
- Saucony Book Shop
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 050447
- Title
- Through the Lich-Gate: A Biography of The Little Church Around the Corner [#26/175 Grand Edition de Luxe, MULTIPLY SIGNED]
- Author
- Ross, Ishbel
- Illustrator
- Ralph L. Boyer
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- N/A
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- William Farquhar Payson
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1931
- Bookseller catalogs
- New York City;
- Size
- Folio - over 12" - 15" tall
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About the Seller
Saucony Book Shop
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Kutztown, Pennsylvania
About Saucony Book Shop
The Saucony Book Shop, located in the heart of scenic rural Berks County, epicenter of Pennsylvania German folk culture (our shop specialty), offers a full range of gently used, rare, and antiquarian books, with many volumes of scholarly merit and an unabashed emphasis on the quaint, the curious, and the utterly obscure. We make no attempt to be a general-service book shop. Our inventory is highly selective, individually chosen from among the hundreds of thousands of books to which we have access annually at auctions, library and estate sales, and through individual scouts and vendors. We do not handle material that does not meet our expectations in terms of condition or interest to our specialized, idiosyncratic customers. Despite maintaining a browsing inventory of more than 15,000 volumes, we have minimized our carbon footprint by maintaining our entire operation in a cozy ca. 1890 barn and lean-to adjacent to an historic creamery in rural Maxatawny Township. Our shop is available for browsing by appointment and occasionally, in temperate weather, by chance, so email or call ahead to peruse the eclectic selection gracing our shelves, or ask our ferociously over-read staff for recommendations. Selling antiquarian books of merit since 1981. Full search and appraisal services; always keenly interested in purchasing quality used books, whether by the piece or by the bushel. Thanks for reading about us! Go placidly amid the noise and haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence.
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- Beveled
- Beveled edges, or beveled boards, describe a technique of binding in which the edges of book boards have been cut into slanted...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
- Folio
- A folio usually indicates a large book size of 15" in height or larger when used in the context of a book description. Further,...
- Device
- Especially for older books, a printer's device refers to an identifying mark, also sometimes called a printer's mark, on the...
- 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...
- 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....
- Vellum
- Vellum is a sheet of specialty prepared skin of lamb, calf, or goat kid used for binding a book or for printing and writing. ...
- Clamshell Box
- A protective box designed for storing and preserving a bound book or loose sheets. A clamshell box is hinged on one side, with...
- 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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