Beau Brummell: His Life and Letters
by Melville, Lewis
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good -
- Seller
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Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: George H. Doran Company, 1925. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo. 313 pp, previous owner's inked signature & date on ffep, perface, list of unpaginated illustrations, 15 chapters with analytical - topical table of contents, Album of George Bryan Brummell, No index. 6.5" x 9.5" black cloth backed boards with gilt checkered design laid on fr cover and spine letters, in manila DJ unclipped in acetate protector. Cloth is Near Fine, with little signof wear. Pages are white, unmarked, and clean. Some signatures have not been fully opened. DJ with 1/8" strip chipped at top, faint spot on spine, and surface chip. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- West Side Book Shop, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 008327
- Title
- Beau Brummell: His Life and Letters
- Author
- Melville, Lewis
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good -
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- George H. Doran Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1925
- Size
- Octavo
- Keywords
- Aubrey Hammond - color frontis of Beau Brummell
- Bookseller catalogs
- BIOGRAPHY;
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About the Seller
West Side Book Shop, ABAA
Biblio member since 2006
Ann Arbor, Michigan
About West Side Book Shop, ABAA
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Glossary
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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...
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- 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...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack 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...
- 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....