This Book-Collecting Game
by NEWTON, A. Edward
- Used
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
-
Winchester, Virginia, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Little, Brown & Co, 1928. First Edition. First printing; trade issue. Octavo; blue cloth over paper-covered boards; dustjacket; [ix],[1]-410pp; illus. Engraved bookplate of Hugh Savage Clark inside front cover, with small institutional deaccession stamp (Carnegie Mellon Library) in margin of bookplate. Else a clean, Near Fine copy in clean, unfaded pictorial jacket that is trimmed about 1/4" too short for the book, unclipped (priced $5.00 on front flap); Very Good.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Lorne Bair Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 58567
- Title
- This Book-Collecting Game
- Author
- NEWTON, A. Edward
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Little, Brown & Co
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1928
Terms of Sale
Lorne Bair Rare Books
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About the Seller
Lorne Bair Rare Books
Biblio member since 2006
Winchester, Virginia
About Lorne Bair Rare Books
Lorne Bair Rare Books specializes in books, mansuscripts, and printed ephemera relating to American Social History, with an emphasis on radical and utopian movements of the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. We are available in our showroom by appointment, at shows, and on-line through various booksellers' sites or at our website www.lornebair.com.
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- Jacket
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- First Edition
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- Cloth
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- Bookplate
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- Fine
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