NY. Farrar & Rinehart (c1929) HARDCOVER. Good/NO jacket. (spoiled by child's drawings in pencil on endpapers else text clean/unmarked/tight. covers soiled in places, back endpaper hinge cracked: a GOOD+ Reading copy) 8vo. Frontispiece + 9 plates + numerous line drawings & other illustrations. Pebbled red cloth covers. Blind stamped front, black lettered spine. Fore edge uncut. First Edition. Reminiscences of early 20th Century bookselling & book buying at the Number 27 Lewis Street Bookstore, Hartford, Connecticut.

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Bookseller: Booktopia (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 2012011
Title: Morocco Bound: Adrift Among Books
Author: Mitchell, Edwin Valentine
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Good/NO jacket. (spoiled by child's drawings in pencil on endpapers else text clean/unmarked/tight. covers soiled in places,
Publisher: Farrar & Rinehart
Place of Publication: NY.
Date Published: (c1929)
Pages: xiv. + 232pp.
Keywords: Books on Books, Early 20th Century Bookstores Book Selling, Number 27 Lewis Street Bookstore Hartford Connecticut History, Edwin Valentine Mitchell

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