Book-Collecting as a Hobby
by P.H. Muir
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good+
- Seller
-
San Diego, California, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
FIRST American EDITION stated in Publisher's original Hardback, blue cloth boards, gold lettering on spine. Illustrated guide to book collecting written as a series of letters. Includes a short history of book production and binding. Clean, unmarked, deckled pages with many illustrations; (viii), 181, (xii) pages. Binding tight. Edges with minor wear. Full Dust Jacket with unclipped price on front flap, chipped along edges. Additional photos upon (email) request. For shipping, book will be carefully wrapped in bubble wrap and shipped in a clean box. We ship internationally. [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover; In Dust Jacket]
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Details
- Bookseller
- Redeemed Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2023PHM28F
- Title
- Book-Collecting as a Hobby
- Author
- P.H. Muir
- Format/Binding
- Hardback, cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First American Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf /Borzai Books
- Place of Publication
- New York, N.Y.
- Date Published
- 1947
- Pages
- 181
- Size
- 8vo
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- books about books, rare book collecting, book sellers, book buyers, reading
Terms of Sale
Redeemed Rare Books
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- 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...
- Cloth
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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....