Spider Boy, a Scenario for a Moving Picture. (SIGNED LIMITED EDITION #54 of 75).
by Van Vechten, Carl
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Greensboro, North Carolina, United States
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About This Item
New York and London: Alfred A. Knopf, 1928. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo. 297 pages. Bound in red vellum with cover and spine titles on fields of gilt. Clear removable mylar cover over the binding. The binding shows wear and has some foxing. The covers are a bit splayed out at the fore edges, since the vellum is generally stiff but flexible. A little wrinkling or bubbling of the paper on the front pastedown. The text is toned at the edges, especially at the fore edge. A limited edition, SIGNED by Carl Van Vechten on the limitation page. This is #54 of 75 copies printed on "Inomachi Japanese Vellum.
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- Bookseller
- Pages Past Used and Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 042553
- Title
- Spider Boy, a Scenario for a Moving Picture. (SIGNED LIMITED EDITION #54 of 75).
- Author
- Van Vechten, Carl
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition First Printing
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York and London
- Date Published
- 1928
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- 1928; Carl Van Vechten; Limited Edition; Vellum; Rare; Collectible; Signed; Autographed; Numbered; Literature.
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature & Fiction; General Antiquarian & Rare; Signed Books & Association Copies;
Terms of Sale
Pages Past Used and Rare Books
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About the Seller
Pages Past Used and Rare Books
Biblio member since 2017
Greensboro, North Carolina
About Pages Past Used and Rare Books
Pages Past is a small used & rare bookshop located a few blocks from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Since 1996 we have been serving the Triad community as well as customers from around the world. We have around 15-20,000 volumes in our shop. We specialize in North Carolina, Virginia, Civil War, Old Leather, Christianity, Eastern and Western Philosophies, and the simply unusual. We very likely have the oldest books in Greensboro; we keep a nice selection of antiquarian volumes and scholarly books.
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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....
- Fore Edge
- The portion of a book that is opposite the spine. That part of a book which faces the wall when shelved in a traditional...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- 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...
- Vellum
- Vellum is a sheet of specialty prepared skin of lamb, calf, or goat kid used for binding a book or for printing and writing. ...
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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