Little, Brown, and Company; Boston, 1927. First Edition, Second Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Very good minus. There was a limited issuance of this first edition which was signed and numbered. This the is the first 'trade' edition, but is also signed and dated on slip tipped in at the copyright page. Octavo, 9" tall, xiv + 311 pages + black and white plate pages, gilt top fore-edge and gilt titles on brown cloth. A very good, generally clean and neat hard cover over all with minor shelf wear; binding tight, but paper lightly yellowed. In a very good minus, moderately worn dust jacket, BUT with cloth tape applied to the blank reverse at the top and bottom edges.

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Bookseller: Avenue Victor Hugo Books LLC (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 62435
Title: Books and Bidders: the adventures of a bibliophile
Author: A. S. W. Rosenbach [signed]
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good
Jacket Condition: Very good minus
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: First Edition, Second Printing
Publisher: Little, Brown, and Company; Boston
Date Published: 1927
Keywords: Books on Books, publishing history, literature, Biography

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Avenue Victor Hugo Books LLC

All of our inventory is now 20% off as part of our Summer 2023 sale! See listing for discounts. Payment may be made by credit card through Biblio.com, or directly to Avenue Victor Hugo via PayPal or by check. Orders paid by check will be held for bank confirmation. Returns are accepted, in the original condition, within 30 days. We do not invoice businesses, institutions or libraries. No dealer discounts. No third-party drop shipping.

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About Avenue Victor Hugo Books LLC

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Avenue Victor Hugo Books specialize in first editions of the best in fiction, history, biography, poetry, drama, and essay. Our catalogue features careful, considered assessments of all of our stock. We are not flippers selling books by the pound. Instead, we try to limit our stock to books in a condition we'd be proud to place on our personal bookshelves.

For nearly 30 years, Avenue Victor Hugo Books was a fixture of Newbury Street in Boston's Back Bay, at one time holding over a quarter-million magazines and 150,000 used books. Awarded "Best Used Bookstore" multiple times by Boston Magazine, the store was a favorite of Boston-area authors and college students alike.

Since relocating to New Hampshire our shop has been featured on WBGH Boston News, WVCB's "Boston Chronicle," NHPR, and WMUR's "New Hampshire Chronicle." Avenue Victor Hugo has also recently been featured in "New Hampshire magazine," "The Boston Globe," UNH's "The New Hampshire," "The New Hampshire Union Leader," and "Foster's Daily Democrat."

Our store is open Fridays & Saturdays from 10am to 6pm in Lee, New Hampshire, less than 10 minutes from the University of New Hampshire.

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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...
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...
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...
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.
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
Plate: Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
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...
Tipped In: Tipped In is used to describe something which has been glued into a book. Tipped-in items can include photos, book plates,...
Copyright page: The page in a book that describes the lineage of that book, typically including the book's author, publisher, date of...