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Tobacco Leaves; Being a Book of Facts for Smokers
by Brennan, W. A
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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East Granby, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
Menasha, WI: George Banta Publishing Co. For Index Office, Inc., Collegiate Press, 1915. First edition, stated first issue, December 1915. With inscription to Basil Condax (of Condax Cigarettes) from the president of the publishing house dated Christmas 1915. Brown cloth printed in gilt, top edge gilt, frontis plate printed in brown, 222 pages. Covers rubbed with additional wear to corners and spine ends, good hinges, sound text block, pages have chipped edges and a few closed tears (maximum about an inch) from rough opening of formerly closed edges, pages clean, no other markings.. Signed by the Publisher. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
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- Bookseller
- Resource Books, LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 046900
- Title
- Tobacco Leaves; Being a Book of Facts for Smokers
- Author
- Brennan, W. A
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- George Banta Publishing Co. For Index Office, Inc., Collegiate Press
- Place of Publication
- Menasha, WI
- Date Published
- 1915
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7&
- Keywords
- CIGARS CIGARETTES AGRICULTURE CURING PRODUCTION
- Bookseller catalogs
- Science, Medicine & Nature; Business, Economics and Finance;
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Resource Books, LLC
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- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- 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...
- 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...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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....
- 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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