BOOKS AND BIDDERS: THE ADVENTURES OF A BIBLIOPHILE
de Rosenbach, A.S.W
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Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1927. Early Reprint. Hardcover. Octavo, xiv, 311 pages. In Very Good minus condition. Bound in brown cloth with lightly worn gilt lettering to spine. Minor general shelf wear, primarily light rubbing to head and tail of spine, hinges, edges, and corners of boards. Top edge of textblock gilt. Previous owner's signature on front free endpaper. Age toning with light pencil marginalia scattered throughout textblock. Features black and white plates throughout. Shelved in Books on Books. From the collection of Silvio Bedini. Bedini spent twenty five years at the Smithsonian Institution, serving as curator in the Department of Mechanical and Civil Engineering in the new Museum of History and Technology (now the National Museum of American History) before serving as first Assistant Director then Deputy Director of the National Museum of History and Technology. He then served as Keeper of Rare Books at the Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology, a branch of the Smithsonian Institution Libraries, before becoming a Historian Emeritus. He specialized in early scientific instruments. 1379239. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.
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- Second Story Books, ABAA (US)
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- 1379239
- Título
- BOOKS AND BIDDERS: THE ADVENTURES OF A BIBLIOPHILE
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- Rosenbach, A.S.W
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- Early Reprint
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- Little, Brown, and Company
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- Boston
- Fecha de publicación
- 1927
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Rockville, Maryland
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- 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...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Marginalia
- Marginalia, in brief, are notes written in the margins, or beside the text of a book by a previous owner. This is very...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- 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....
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...