One Hundred Best Books: With Commentary and an Essay On Books and Reading
by Powys, John Cowper
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good- with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Palatine, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
NY: American Library Service. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1922. Second Edition. First Printing. Hard Cover. Publisher's blue full cloth, gilt lettering on front cover.. Spine edges shelf-worn, tape shadow on front and rear endpapers, small pencil mark on front free endpaper, pages clean, tight, and square. VERY GOOD-. . 12mo 7" - 7½" tall. 68 pp .
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- Bookseller
- Round Table Books, LLC (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 22862
- Title
- One Hundred Best Books: With Commentary and an Essay On Books and Reading
- Author
- Powys, John Cowper
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good- with no dust jacket
- Edition
- Second Edition. First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- American Library Service
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1922
- Keywords
- Reading Lists;, Reading;, Books About Books;, Powys;, Best books;, Book list;, Bibliography;, Library Science;, John Cowper Powys;
- Bookseller catalogs
- Books About Books;
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Round Table Books, LLC
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Palatine, Illinois
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- Edges
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- Tight
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- Jacket
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- 12mo
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- Cloth
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- 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....
- 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...