Fantasies & Hard Knocks: My Life as a Printer [signed]
by Richard-Gabriel Rummonds
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0692364048
- ISBN 13
- 9780692364048
- Seller
-
Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
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About This Item
Port Townsend, WA: Ex Ophidia Press, 2015. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. Large Thick Octavo. xviii + 796 pp, embellished with over 450 images & 65 recipes. Recipes Index, General Index. 6.4" x 9.4" gray cloth boards, gilt spine letters, in unclipped illustrated DJ - acetate protected. 2.8" thick. .
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- Bookseller
- West Side Book Shop, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 009586
- Title
- Fantasies & Hard Knocks: My Life as a Printer [signed]
- Author
- Richard-Gabriel Rummonds
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0692364048
- ISBN 13
- 9780692364048
- Publisher
- Ex Ophidia Press
- Place of Publication
- Port Townsend, WA
- Date Published
- 2015
- Size
- Large Thick Octavo
- Keywords
- Handpress printers - memoirs - Verona Italy American expatriate - Plain Wrapper Press - Richard Price Rummonds (also known as Richard-Gabriel Price Rummonds) b. 1931 - author publisher typographer
- Bookseller catalogs
- BOOKS & PUBLISHING;
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About the Seller
West Side Book Shop, ABAA
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Ann Arbor, Michigan
About West Side Book Shop, ABAA
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- Gilt
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- Cloth
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