The Life and Works of Beethoven
by BURK, John N
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Galena, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
New York: The Modern Library, n.y.. Hardcover. 12mo. Burgundy cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. viii, 469pp, (2pp ads). Grey decorative endpapers. Near fine/very good. Mild edgewear (mainly head of spine) to otherwise bright and lovely jacket; small ownership signature on front pastedown. First issued by ML in 1946, this fresh and tight copy of #241 is a later printing ($1.95 jacket flap price dates it to circa 1962).
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- Bookseller
- Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 43819
- Title
- The Life and Works of Beethoven
- Author
- BURK, John N
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- The Modern Library
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- n.y.
- Bookseller catalogs
- Books; Music;
Terms of Sale
Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA
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About the Seller
Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA
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Galena, Illinois
About Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA
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Glossary
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- 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...
- 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.
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...