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A Catalogue of Rare and Choice Books Principally Americana with a Complete Index
by [Arthur H. Clark]
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very good
- Seller
-
Rocky River, Ohio, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Cleveland, Ohio: The Arthur H. Clark Company, 1906. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Small octavo, 620pp. Ex-library with hardly any markings (bookplate on front paste-down and small, handwritten paper label on the spine). Bound by Riviere in 3/4 polished green calf and green cloth with modest gilt tooling. Top edge gilt and marbled endpapers. Some leather dry at the seams and spine faded to an olive-brown, but a tight, bright, clean copy internally, overall very good. This is one of fifty copies "specially prepared, indexed, and bound for presentation to a few particularly valued customers," and SIGNED by Clark, the proprietor. This is copy number 21, and still has the presentation card laid into the limitation page. Clark, a publisher and bookseller in Cleveland, Ohio, published a few of these catalogues between 1906 and 1914, and this is the first of them. There are about a dozen library holdings worldwide, and this catalogue in uncommon in the marketplace, with the last auction records (just for later volumes!) occurring in 1951.
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Details
- Seller
- Cleveland Book Company
(US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 982
- Title
- A Catalogue of Rare and Choice Books Principally Americana with a Complete Index
- Author
- [Arthur H. Clark]
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- The Arthur H. Clark Company
- Place of Publication
- Cleveland, Ohio
- Date Published
- 1906
- Keywords
- Fine bindings, books about books, Ohioana, Midwest Americana, dealer catalogues, trade catalogues
- Bookseller catalogs
- Americana;
Terms of Sale
Cleveland Book Company
All books are returnable within ten days if returned in the same condition as sent. All books in my inventory are authenticated and described to the industry's highest standard of professionalism. Payment should accompany order if you are a new customer. Current customers will be invoiced with payment due in 30 days. Institutions billed per their requirements. ALL ITEMS SUBJECT TO PRIOR SALE. Books sent via US Postal Service unless other arrangements are requested. INTERNATIONAL PURCHASES WILL BE SHIPPED AT THE EXACT COST. NOTE: USPS NO LONGER SHIPS SURFACE MAIL TO OVERSEAS. Where possible, we will ship GLOBAL PRIORITY, minimum charge of $23.95, maximum weight 4 pounds. For packages over 4 pounds, you will be contacted with exact charges. Ohio residents please add 5.75% sales tax. We accept VISA, MASTERCARD, DISCOVER, and AMERICAN EXPRESS.
About the Seller
Cleveland Book Company
Biblio member since 2017
Rocky River, Ohio
About Cleveland Book Company
We are proud members of the ABAA.
As a small, independent bookseller in Cleveland, Ohio, I deal in general used, rare, and antiquarian books, autographs, manuscripts, pamphlets, and personal and family papers in all subjects. My family has been in the antiquarian book business since 1971. Are you moving, downsizing, or doing some spring cleaning? Did you inherit or otherwise come into some old books? Or, maybe you've collected modern novels from the last thirty or fifty years. No matter what kinds of books you have, we'd love to take a look at them! We travel throughout Ohio, western Pennsylvania and New York, southern Michigan, and eastern Indiana, and will travel farther in some cases to look at whole libraries or even just a few particularly interesting books. Give us a call at (216) 352-3940 and we can talk more about the kinds of books you have.
As a small, independent bookseller in Cleveland, Ohio, I deal in general used, rare, and antiquarian books, autographs, manuscripts, pamphlets, and personal and family papers in all subjects. My family has been in the antiquarian book business since 1971. Are you moving, downsizing, or doing some spring cleaning? Did you inherit or otherwise come into some old books? Or, maybe you've collected modern novels from the last thirty or fifty years. No matter what kinds of books you have, we'd love to take a look at them! We travel throughout Ohio, western Pennsylvania and New York, southern Michigan, and eastern Indiana, and will travel farther in some cases to look at whole libraries or even just a few particularly interesting books. Give us a call at (216) 352-3940 and we can talk more about the kinds of books you have.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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...
- Top Edge Gilt
- Top edge gilt refers to the practice of applying gold or a gold-like finish to the top of the text block (the edges the pages...
- 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....
- 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...
- Paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
- Calf
- Calf or calf hide is a common form of leather binding. Calf binding is naturally a light brown but there are ways to treat the...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
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