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Q.B.L. or The Bride's Reception,; Being a Short Cabalistic Treatise on the Nature and Use of the Tree of Life
by ACHAD, Frater
- Used
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- very good(+)
- Seller
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New York, New York, United States
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About This Item
Chicago: Privately Printed, 1922. First. hardcover. very good(+). Illustrated with diagrams, including 1 folding plate, and 4 color plates, protected with tissue. 106 pages + 43 page appendix. 8vo, gilt-lettered blue cloth with lamen embossed at lower corner; beveled boards, uncut edges, top edge gilt. Chicago: Privately Printed for the Author, (1922/1925). Limited Edition - Signed by the author on the dedication page.<br/><br/> Binding is very lightly edgeworn and evenly faded, still a very good(+) copy of this unusual book. Copyright states "C. Stansfeld Jones, 1922," but 1925 is printed at foot of spine.<br/><br/>
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- Bookseller
- Argosy Book Store
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 264298
- Title
- Q.B.L. or The Bride's Reception,; Being a Short Cabalistic Treatise on the Nature and Use of the Tree of Life
- Author
- ACHAD, Frater
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - very good(+)
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- Publisher
- Privately Printed
- Place of Publication
- Chicago
- Date Published
- 1922
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- Beveled
- Beveled edges, or beveled boards, describe a technique of binding in which the edges of book boards have been cut into slanted...
- Top Edge Gilt
- Top edge gilt refers to the practice of applying gold or a gold-like finish to the top of the text block (the edges the pages...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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....
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
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