The Collector's Book of Books
by Quayle, Eric
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Cape Coral, Florida, United States
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About This Item
New York: Clarkson N. Potter, 1971 A beautiful work on book collecting. Well-illustrated. Many photos of rare title pages, jackets and bindings. 17 color plates on slick paper. Folio 12" X 9". Dark blue cloth stamped in gilt on spine. 144 pages. Price clipped dust jacket. Clean, tight and bright. Like new/ like new..
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Details
- Bookseller
- Cultural Connection (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 16445
- Title
- The Collector's Book of Books
- Author
- Quayle, Eric
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Clarkson N. Potter
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1971
- Keywords
- Book Collecting
- Bookseller catalogs
- General #1;
Terms of Sale
Cultural Connection
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Cultural Connection
Biblio member since 2016
Cape Coral, Florida
About Cultural Connection
Home to collectible and scarce or rare hard to find books and quality collectible fine art including wood sculpture, limited edition cast marble sculpture, paintings and wood block prints. Our book inventory has a large number of first editions, books autographed by the author, maps, limited editions and books with engravings. We have many scarce and collectible books. Our book specialties are art, archaeology, history, natural history, and fiction. Our art collection includes African tribal art, American, antiques, Asian, Eskimo, European, Far Eastern, Indian, Mid Eastern, 17th, 18th and 19th century, 20th century, contemporary, and Precolumbian art.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....
- Folio
- A folio usually indicates a large book size of 15" in height or larger when used in the context of a book description. Further,...
- 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...
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...