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Allen Latham's Bee Book
by Latham, Allen
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
-
Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Atlanta, GA: Hale Publishing Company, 1949. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 200pp. Octavo. [20.5cm] Green cloth over boards. Title stamped in gold gilt on spine, and gold gilt decorations stamped on front cover. Both cover and spine gilt decorations have substantial fading. Front cover has some foxing to foreedge. Minor soiling on covers. Both cover and textblock have some water damage. Textblock is beginning to pull away from spine, cracked at endpages.. Endpages have been stamped by previous owner.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 62482
- Title
- Allen Latham's Bee Book
- Author
- Latham, Allen
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Hale Publishing Company
- Place of Publication
- Atlanta, GA
- Date Published
- 1949
- Keywords
- beekeeping, apiary, apian, bees, hives, beehive
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
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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....
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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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