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Modern Book Collecting for the Impecunious Amateur (Inscribed By Kenneth Roberts)
by Herbert Faulkner West
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Collectible; Fine/Very Good
- Seller
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Waccabuc, New York, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Boston: Little, Brown and Co, 1936. 1st. Cloth. Collectible; Fine/Very Good. WARMLY INSCRIBED BY NOVELIST KENNETH ROBERTS IN YEAR-OF-PUBLICATION on the front free endpaper. A clean, solid copy to boot of the 1936 1st edition. Near Fine in a bright, price-intact, VG+ dustjacket, with very light chipping at the spine ends. 12mo, 305 pgs.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Appledore Books, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 8319
- Title
- Modern Book Collecting for the Impecunious Amateur (Inscribed By Kenneth Roberts)
- Author
- Herbert Faulkner West
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Collectible; Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Little, Brown and Co
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1936
- Keywords
- Rare reference, rare books-on-books, rare Kenneth Roberts
- Bookseller catalogs
- Reference; Books on Books;
Terms of Sale
Appledore Books, ABAA
All books are offered subject to prior sale. Materials are returnable within 1 week of receipt provided prior notice is given.
About the Seller
Appledore Books, ABAA
Biblio member since 2005
Waccabuc, New York
About Appledore Books, ABAA
Buy and sell - rare, unusual and antiquarian - art, photography, literature, scholarly, sports, childrens, bindings.
Glossary
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- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- 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....
- Inscribed
- When a book is described as being inscribed, it indicates that a short note written by the author or a previous owner has been...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
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