From a Writer's Notebook
by Brooks, Van Wyck
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Beloit, Wisconsin, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Worcester: Achille J. St. Onge, 1955. Notes on reading, writers, & books. Finely bound miniature book, one of 1000 printed by The Chiswick Press on Kelmscott handmade paper, bound in full green calf, gilt titling, all edges gilt; design by Frank J. Lieberman. Shows some scuffing, light creases, minor damage to rear pastedown endsheet. Text clean; [4], 88 pages + colophon.. Limited. Full Leather. Very Good/No Jacket. 2" by 2-3/8". Miniature Book.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bookworks MWABA, IOBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- q1026
- Title
- From a Writer's Notebook
- Author
- Brooks, Van Wyck
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- Limited
- Publisher
- Achille J. St. Onge
- Place of Publication
- Worcester
- Date Published
- 1955
- Keywords
- Writing, Literature, Reading, Books on Books
- Bookseller catalogs
- Books, Prints, Drawings & Paper;
- Size
- 2" by 2-3/8"
Terms of Sale
Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
All books are subject to prior sale, though we make every effort to keep our inventory current. Books are returnable within ten days with prior notification. We will request extra shipping for large books and sets going to addresses outside the United States.
About the Seller
Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
Biblio member since 2006
Beloit, Wisconsin
About Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
Most of our stock is on-line only, though we have many books in three booths at Angela's Attic Antique Mall, 1020 Gardner Street in South Beloit, Illinois; a booth across the street at the Best of Beloit; and a large booth at the Lake Geneva Antique Mall, 829 Williams Street, Lake Geneva, WI. You may request to see any of our on-line inventory at any location with a few days' notice.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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...
- 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...
- Calf
- Calf or calf hide is a common form of leather binding. Calf binding is naturally a light brown but there are ways to treat the...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Miniature
- A book that is less then 3 inches in width and ...
- Colophon
- The colophon contains information about a book's publisher, the typesetting, printer, and possibly even includes a printer's...