YANKEE DOODLES
by BEARDSLEE, MARTIN
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine.
- Seller
-
Prairie Village, Kansas, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York City: Caroline E. McElveen, 1965. Bound in red cloth with original birch wood veneer covers inlaid into front and rear covers. Red leather spine label. Bound by PETER FRANCK, with his binder's mark in ink a foot of rear pastedown. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR to Mr. Franck on the front free endpaper. Housed in a hand-made slipcase with hand-made marbled paper onlays by the binder. Slipcase lightly rubbed at corners. Sixteen poems all printed on the recto with blank versos. Peter Franck (1883-1976) was a master binder and paper marbler. He learned his craft from an uncle starting at age 13. He worked for Elbert Hubbard at the Roycroft Shop, later established the Oakwood Binders with Sterling Lord, and ultimately founded his own bindery where he became the primary binder for Dard Hunter.. First Edition. Fine.. Thin Octavo.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Glenn Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 012600
- Title
- YANKEE DOODLES
- Author
- BEARDSLEE, MARTIN
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine.
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Caroline E. McElveen
- Place of Publication
- New York City
- Date Published
- 1965
- Size
- Thin Octavo
- Keywords
- Fine Binding, Peter Franck, Arts and Crafts
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Glenn Books
Biblio member since 2005
Prairie Village, Kansas
About Glenn Books
We are an antiquarian bookshop established in 1933. We are members of ABAA and ILAB.
Glossary
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- Recto
- The page on the right side of a book, with the term Verso used to describe the page on the left side.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Marbled Paper
- Decorative colored paper that imitates marble with a veined, mottled, or swirling pattern. Commonly used as the end papers or...
- Spine Label
- The paper or leather descriptive tag attached to the spine of the book, most commonly providing the title and author of the...
- Inscribed
- When a book is described as being inscribed, it indicates that a short note written by the author or a previous owner has been...
- 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...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
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