Books about Books: a bio-bibliography for collectors
by Webber, Winslow L
- Used
- Near Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/No Jacket
- Seller
-
Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Boston: Hale, Cushman and Flint, 1937. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. Quarto. iv + 168 pp, previous owner's book plate fr pastedown, stated first printing, November, 1937. 7" x 9.95" beige cloth boards, light brown letters, stained brown top edge. Very little external wear or soil. Binding tight and square, pages clean, unmarked, paper well-preserved. A nice clean copy.
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Details
- Bookseller
- West Side Book Shop, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 009581
- Title
- Books about Books: a bio-bibliography for collectors
- Author
- Webber, Winslow L
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Hale, Cushman and Flint
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1937
- Size
- Quarto
- Keywords
- book collecting - bibliographic information - anecdotal history of significant collectors, of books collected and sold
- Bookseller catalogs
- BOOKS & PUBLISHING;
Terms of Sale
West Side Book Shop, ABAA
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About the Seller
West Side Book Shop, ABAA
Biblio member since 2006
Ann Arbor, Michigan
About West Side Book Shop, ABAA
West Side Book Shop, Located in downtown Ann Arbor, was established in 1975 by Jay Platt, a member of the ABAA. West Side Book Shop offers a wide selection of used and rare books.
Glossary
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- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Quarto
- The term quarto is used to describe a page or book size. A printed sheet is made with four pages of text on each side, and the...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...