The Delightful Diversion: The Whys and Wherefores of Book Collecting
de Brewer, Reginald Arthur
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- Firmado
- First
- Estado
- Very Good- with no dust jacket
- Librería
-
Williamsburg, Virginia, United States
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Sobre este artículo
New York: The MacMillan Company. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1935. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Signed by author. Cloth cover worn at head and tail of spine. No dust jacket The spine is browned but legible, some browning around edges. No DJ. Front and rear pastedown endpapers heavily foxed, free endpapers less so. Binding sound. Pages clean and unmarked, Inscribed by author on ffep "To E. R. Siese with best wishes and sincere regards Reginald Brewer". Includes 16 plates, a glossary of book terminology, and an index. ; B&W Plates; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 320 pages; Signed by Author .
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Detalles
- Librería
- James F. Balsley, Bookseller
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 17389
- Título
- The Delightful Diversion: The Whys and Wherefores of Book Collecting
- Autor
- Brewer, Reginald Arthur
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Very Good- with no dust jacket
- Edición
- First Edition; First Printing
- Editorial
- The MacMillan Company
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 1935
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Books & Book Collecting;
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Sobre el vendedor
James F. Balsley, Bookseller
Miembro de Biblio desde 2006
Williamsburg, Virginia
Sobre James F. Balsley, Bookseller
My business is strictly on-line sales. I carry an inventory of about 2000 books. About half of these are modern fiction. Most of the rest are scholarly academic books concentrated in the areas of natural science, philosophy, history, and literature.
Glosario
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- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- 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....
- Inscribed
- When a book is described as being inscribed, it indicates that a short note written by the author or a previous owner has been...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
